I have got one mail from yahoo award center that u have win 600,000gbpounds from yahoo windows live award its?

The e-mail that you received is a scam. The lottery that you supposedly won is just a con that a scammer is using to get you to send him money. This whole thing seems too good to be true because it IS too good to be true.

Fake lottery scams are very simple. The scammer finds your e-mail address somewhere on the Internet and adds it to the mass-mailing list. He bombards hundreds, if not thousands, of e-mail addresses with the lottery e-mail.

Anybody who replies is being scammed. The con artist will soon ask the victim to wire money for "fees." There might be a courier fee to have the lottery check delivered, for example. Or maybe the victim is supposed to send money to cover taxes or insurance.

After the victim sends the first payment, the scammer will return with another excuse. The victim will continue sending money until he or she is either broke, or realizes that the whole thing is a scam. Either way, the money that was sent to the bad guy is gone - and the victim never sees so much as a hint of the prize money.

To confirm that the e-mail you have is a scam, do one or more of the following:

Copy part of the original e-mail and paste it into a search engine. Anti-scam sites archive and publish known scam e-mails in an effort to help potential victims before they fall for the scams.

If you received an e-mail that claims to be from a company like Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Toyota, et cetera, open a fresh browser window and manually enter that company's official Web site address. The company will have, at the most, a fraud warning. But you will not find advertising about the company's so-called lottery. This is because these companies do not have lotteries.

When you receive e-mails that claim to be from real lotteries (like the UK Lottery), go visit the official Web site. There is usually an anti-fraud warning present. Real lottery commissions do not have your e-mail address. How can they notify you that you won if you didn't give them this information? And if you never bought a ticket for that lottery, then how can you win? You cannot, because lottery commissions do not give away tickets for free. If they did, then they would quickly run out of money for the prize pool.

If you still aren't sure, you should contact your local police department. Many departments are aware of these scams, and will tell you that the person who sent you this e-mail is a con artist who is simply trying to take your money.

The best thing to do when you receive one of these e-mails is to simply delete it and move on. Reporting the user to the provider to have the e-mail account closed can interfere with an active law-enforcement investigation.

You can also warn people you know about these scams. The more people we all tell, the fewer potential victims these low-life scammers will have.

http://www.scamwarners.com/ is an excellent Web site for more information about fake lottery scams and other, similar cons.

This is a SCAM. The below links gives confirmation of various email scams hitting the internet, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them :

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotteryscam_...

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...

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/

ANY time you receive these emails from yahoo, msn, etc., delete them. They are hoaxes. Any time you receive an email from someone telling you "after some extensive searching, we found you are the sole heir", delete it. Lotteries, awards and sweepstakes you didn't enter, hoaxes. If you've a PayPal account, watch out for mail from Paypal(notice the p's) telling you your account has been suspended, delete it. Also, if you receive what looks like an authentic email from a bank, places such as ebay, etc and the mail begins, "Dear Customer, Client or Account Holder", delete those too. Authentic emails will address you by the name you registered the account with.

This is a scam thousands of these emails are sent

every day DO NOT send any cash or personal details

mark as spam, click the link below to see what

yahoo say about this.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abu...

spam

Spam mails cancel

If u dont want spam mails

Go to options link on the yahoo mail page and then select mail options

Then under the spam section select 'delete spam mails' as immidately

Done no more spam mails for u

To see spam follow the same procedure and under the spam section select once in a month option

Blocking ids

To block a person from sending u a mail block his/her id

To do so go to options in the yahoomail page and then click on mail options

Under the spam tab and under the block adress option type the id u want to block and click on add

Then ciick on save and return back to ur mail page

False

There is no such thing a Yahoo Awards. What you have received is a scam. Do not reply to it in any way. It's fake fake fake.

sorry to know this is a scam to know ur personal

details and steal to some crackers so dont

respond such kind of mails

to know about the details see the site below

you are being scammed. I got an email like this and traced the email address back to Nigeria. It is a serious fraud.

This is called Phishing. You are being suckered. Do not respond. go to the following for information.

http://www.fbi.gov/ http://www.ustreas.gov/ and http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/phishing.htm and also http://www.antiphishing.org/

They have many og these coming out and many are from Nigeria and they are phishing.so not reply just send it back as Spam as it is junk mail sorry.