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This day i recieved an e-mail form [email protected] sayng that i won 400000 pounds.?

• this is the e mail: this day i recieved an e-mail form [email protected] sayng that i won 400000 pounds. This is the e mail: You won £400.000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! Messenger CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON £400,000! Dear Winner, Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Four Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds (£400,000) for the month of Novembr 2007 Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo.messenger.com every month. Yahoo! collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo! mail, among the millions that subscribe to msn mail, we only select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base. Further more your details (e-mail address) falls within our British representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £400,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw. You are required to forward him with the following details: 1.FULL NAME 2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 3.PRESENT ADDRESS 4.SEX 5.DATE OF BIRTH 6.AGE 7.OCCUPATION 8.TELEPHONE NUMBER 9. FAX NUMBER(IF ANY) 10.MARITAL STATUS 11.WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER. 12. AMOUNT WON? 13.THE MONTH YOU WON? As soon as you contact him, he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money. Note: Remember all fees for processing of winning funds transfer must be paid by the winner, you must contact your claims manager not later than 14 working days of Notification. After that all funds will be returned as unclaimed. Congratulations once more!! For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Yours Sincerely, Dr WILLIAM GERRI LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR. The Yahoo.com staff Is this e-mail real or is it a scam. Cuold you send me the answer quick. Thanks.

• Answer:

  This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various scams, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them. http://www.hotscams.com/articles/473/1/A... Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them. Check out these sites for further information : http://www.scambusters.com http://www.hoax-slayer.com/