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• Yahoo Awards Center From The Desk Of The Promotions Manager International Promotions/Yahoo Award Center 124 Stockport Road, Long sight, Manchester M60 2DB - United Kingdom Date:25/10/2011 This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of (USD $ 800,000.00) Eight hundred thousand United States Dollars for the month October,2011 Prize promotion draw which is organized by YAHOO AWARDS & MICROSOFT WINDOWS LIVE. The email selection balloting machine collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Eight people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners. PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed no later than 25 days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited. Stated below are your identification numbers: IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS: Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-390AF Reff number........................YBM-EBS-71… Winning number...............YBM-EBS-798AF PIN: 1291 These numbers fall within the England Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in London and send your winning identification numbers to him; Below you will find a Documentation Form, requesting you're required Particulars. YAHOO ONLINE DOCUMENTATION FORM FULL NAMES: ADDRESS: CITY: STATE: ZIP: PHONE: FAX: COUNTRY: SEX: AGE: MARITAL STATUS: OCCUPATION: E-MAIL ADDRESS: NATIONALITY: You are required to fill and submit the above particulars to our Overseas /United Kingdom Claim Agent with the below email address. Overseas Claims/Exchange Online Payment Unit Contact Person: Name: Rev. Fr.Steve Amstill Tel/Fax: +44-703-597-8853 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] CONGRATULATIONS!!! At your disposal, I remain. Yours in service, Dr. (Mrs.) Amanda Ford. --------------------------------------… WARNING! Be careful not to disclose your Prize Award details to any body until your money is successful handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim. You may also receive similar e-mails from people portraying to be other Organizations or Yahoo Inc. This is solely to collect your personal information from you and lay claim over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the notification letter that was sent to you, kindly delete it from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body. Yahoo shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned.

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  100% scam. There is no Yahoo, Nokia, Shell, BBC, Google, Coca-Cola, MSN, Microsoft, BMW or any other company in the entire world that sponsors a lottery that notifies winners via email, phone call or text. Any phone number that starts with +44-70 or anything similar is not based in the United Kingdom. It is from a UK based cell phone redirect service that can be answered by anyone anywhere in the world. It is a favorite service of scammers who want to pretend to be in the United Kingdom but are really half way around the world from there. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lottery official" and will demand you pay for made-up fees and taxes, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. If you google "fake yahoo lottery", "lotto Western Union fraud" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam.