Is this fake email (that i won money price?) OR NOT?

100% scam.

There is no lottery.

There is no Yahoo, Facebook, 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.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

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.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even partial 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.

Any money being offered or any message stating you are owed/may be gifted money that you know nothing about is a scam.

There is no money. Never has been, never will be. Don't ever give people you don't know your personal details or any money.

And just because you did question this (not saying you will, just friendly advice), don't ever send items to Nigeria, it's a scam, and don't ever meet any of these people in person. Also don't click on links in random emails for anything that states they need you give personal details/bank details even if it appears to be from your bank or Paypal or whatever. Type in the address to the site and log in that way - the links often lead to sites that are trying to steal your identity or money.

Should you didn't buy a ticket, then you haven't gained something. These scammers target men and women who are desparate for cash and inform them that they need to ahead a "processsing fee ". The victim sends the cost and in no way sees a dime. Yet another rip-off is the " dead relative" rip-off out of nigeria. Any one emails you and says that a character along with your last name has died in a car crash and left no heirs. They present to symbolize you in claiming the millions this " relative" has left in the back of. You pay countless numbers in authorized costs and on no account see a dime again. Watch out for some thing that appears too excellent to be true. If most most often IS!

I was always told nothing is giving to you for free. If you did not enter something then how could you possibly win anything? It is a scam.

Does it ask you to put in a credit card number or something? and usually you dont just randomly win a prize without actually entering into it, im pretty sure its fake.

It is a scam. Sorry. :(