Is this YAHOO lottory or is it a scam?

Dear Winner,





YOU HAVE WON TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS ON OUR YAHOO LOTTERY PROGRAMME. HURRAY!





We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 27TH October , 2007 from the YAHOO! International Lottery Program. Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses, your e-mail was attached to ticket number 47061725 07056490902, serial number 7741137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the First category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum of US$250,000 .00(TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$50,000,000.00(DOLLARS) shared amongst 500(five hundred) lucky winners in this category.








All participant were selected through a sorting and filtering program designed by Dr Philip Emegwali from 50,000,000 (fifty million) e-mail addresses from the web because you have once visited one of Global Village Awareness/Yahoo! sponsored sites. This is part of our international promotions program which is conducted monthly to promote the use of the internet with the view of making the world a global village. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by YAHOO!/ GLOBAL VILLAGE AWARENESS INITIATIVE. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.





YAHOO CO-ORDINATORS, collects all the E MAIL I D of the people that subscribes to yahoo mail, msn, hotmail, aol, altavista, and others online, among the billions that subscribe to us, only Five hundred people will emerge as winners. we only select fifty people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying and will run for ten months, we are congratulating you for having been one of the lucky people that won for this month..





you are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim, Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre.


Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification, after the Draw date in which Prize was won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and retrieved .





Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our booklet representative office in UK as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your won prize will be released to you by any of our payment Banks in Africa or it's correspondence Bank in UK. Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him through the email address or telephone numbers as directed below.





Overseas Payment and Release Order Department,


OSA CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT


Contact Person: barr. Morgan Clarke


Email: morganclarkebarr@gmail.com


Tel: +447077087955.


Fax: +447005807677.








SECURITY


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.


Note, all winnings MUST be claimed otherwise the funds will be returned as unclaimed.


Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of YAHOO! Thank you for being part of this promotional email lottery program.























Security Advice :At The Yahoo International Lottery we understand the importance of security. That's why we've created highly secure facilities to give you confidence during our promotions programs or when you play our games online, on TV via Sky Active or using your mobile phone to play by text.





Warning: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appears to be using Yahoo International Lottery addresses, but are not from us. If you receive similar email that is not from us, kindly disregard/discard it immediately. Do NOT reply any such email but genuine email from us via this email address. Our security pages that will give you more information about current scams and what measures you can take to protect yourself.





NOTICE: You have received this message from Yahoo International Lotto Lottery prize dept. because you have visited one of our sponsored sites and have voluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their sponsors. If you wish to be taken out of this list do not reply to this mail, reply to the agent with the words remove. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies of it from your system and notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail.


Thank you.








Yours Sincerely,


Dr. Darryn Blake


Yahoo! 2007 Lottery program


Barley House Harold Road


Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te United Kingdom. .

Is this YAHOO lottory or is it a scam?
Scam. Why would a Yahoo! employee use his gmail email for company business?





Overseas Payment and Release Order Department,


OSA CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT


Contact Person: barr. Morgan Clarke


****** Email: morganclarkebarr@gmail.com ******


Tel: +447077087955.


Fax: +447005807677.
Reply:Scam delete legitimate lotteries don't operate that way if


you did enter something and you won they won't contact


you by e-mail.
Reply:scam don't fall for it. i reported them.
Reply:It's a scam.


Delete it. Or better block the email address and mark it as spam.
Reply:I Got plenty of spam mails like this every day :)


If these things are true then i'm the worlds richest man :)