I received a message from yahoo lottery is that true about yahoo?

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YAHOO! MAIL
Yahoo! News - Lottery
	

	
                                  
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! YAHOO  LOTTERY  INTERNATIONAL
    
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of GBP £SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING (Gbp £600.000.00) for the YEAR 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for the introduction of the new YAHOO BETA MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch onton to the whole wild world.
YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS and OTHERS, arrange and gather some of all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail, and others we only select EIGHT (8) candidates per annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected as lucky numbers:(-02-06-21-34-35-49-(46-)"bonus no 46. which subsequently won"you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to London due to we have 3 lucky winners in United Kingdom so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our UK Location Claim Office on or before your date of Claim.
Yahoo Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 21 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.
Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (21 days) will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:
KTU Number......................../9023118308/03
Serial Number ....................................5368/02
Ticket Number.................... 5647560054188

To claim your prize money,you are required to contact the our customer service department with these information through this contacts below.

Email: yahoo-inc@uk2.net 
Phone: +447-031-8207-61
Fax: 440-870-288-5153

You are therefore advised to send the following information to them and a copy to us in order to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund with the appointed paying bank.
Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to her immediately:

Personal Information
1. Full name..................
2. Country....................
3. Contact Address...........
4. Telephone Number.........
5. Marital Status..............
6. Occupation..................
7. Age.........................
8. Sex.........................
9. Country of orgin.................

Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,
Yahoo! UK & Ireland
	
	All-new Yahoo! Mail
Now you can automatically know when new mail arrives. Try it now
We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!.
KEEP THIS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE MONEY.
NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH, DEDUCT/CUT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED STRICTLY!

NOTE: SEND A COPY OF THE INFORMATION TO THE PAYING BANK AND A COPY TO OUR PAYMENT OFFICE ABOVE. YOU HAVE TO SEND A COPY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO YOU AND A COPY OF HOW TO TRANSFER YOUR PRIZE TO YOU, SEND A COPY TO OUR PAYING BANK AND A COPY TO US AT VIA E-MAIL: yahoo-inc@uk2.net, BEFORE THE BANK CAN RELEASE YOUR MONEY.
	See what's happening on Yahoo.com today. Do you Yahoo!?
If you have questions or wish to claim your prize money kindly contact us, +447031820761 see theinstructions at the body of this message

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

these are all fraud
don't believe
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JillPinky · Answer

This 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.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotteryscam_Yahoo2.php
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/

Brown_Eyed_Girl · Answer

It sounds very suspicious to me. Did you apply for this or just randomly receive it? Usually when something sounds to good to be true it is. If you are going to go thru with it I would certainly not send them any money or personal information because that is how so many people run scams over the internet. Try contacting Yahoo and see if it is legitimate or not. Good Luck! I hope you really did win something!

Anonymous · Answer

You don't get anything for nothing, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information.
www.scambusters.org
www.hoaxbusters.ciac.org
www.scambusters-419.co.uk
www.truthorfiction.com
.Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful.

Chelsea E · Answer

SCAM!!!!

"KEEP THIS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE MONEY.
NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH, DEDUCT/CUT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED STRICTLY!"

Are they serious? If they were going to try and scam you for your personal information they could have tried to be less obvious about it.

Anonymous · Answer

Of course it's a scam.

Richard S · Answer

It is not a part of the rules and regulations of YA; however, due to greed some soul will do exactly what they ask.

ANDREW C · Answer

Looks fake to me! Report it to Yahoo! through their helpline and they will no doubt be very helpful!

If it was Yahoo!, why do they need your personal info? This is never requested after registration or by email! (AFAIK)

Anonymous · Answer

That's an obvious scam email.  Don't even reply to it.

Nizam89 · Answer

Kindly, please call Yahoo! Service if you got any "Big Problem" about lottery. If I got this message, I will do that. Don't call the number that shown above.

Anonymous · Answer

Don't trust it :~) It's most likely A scam~~trust no one on internet!!!

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