okay what is this?i am winner or ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/?

[Rahel Zewdu]

From The Desk Of The Promotions Manager
International Promotions/Yahoo Award Center
124 Stockport Road, Long sight,
Manchester M60 2DB - United Kingdom

ATTN: WINNER,
Your email address have just won a YAHOO & WINDOWS LIVE prize money of (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLINGS) (GBP£800, 000.00) for the Year 2012.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world and your winning category falls within our African category so you are to claim your money through our African claim agent

This Lottery is approved by the South African/British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

Payment of Prize and Claim
Winners are to be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. This Prize Award must be claimed in not later than 30 days from date of draw notification after which unclaimed prizes are cancelled.

WINNER NO: 3
these are your identification numbers:
Ticket Number: 7PWYZ2007
Ballot Number: BT: 12052006/20
WINNING CATEGORY: AFRICA

These numbers fall within UK & South African file. Thus, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Johannesburg of South Africa and send your winning identification numbers to him:
Kindly send the following information to your claim agent to facilitate the release of your fund.

1, FULLNAME:
2, ADDRESS:
3, CITY/STATE:
4, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
5, MARITAL STATUS:
6, SEX;
7, AGE;
8, DIRECT MOBILE TEL; FAX:
9, OCCUPATION:
10, YOUR PRIVATE EMAIL (yahoo, hotmail or even gmail.com, if you don’t have any you create one and attach it with the email that won the prize):

CONTACT INFORMATION OF OUR AGENT IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Overseas Claims/Exchange Online Payment Unit
Contact Person: Name: Mr. Prosper Nkulu
Email: congrat0001@terra.com

Once your agent acknowledges receipt of this required detail, transfer would commence.

Congratulations!! Once Again.
Yours in service,

[Prof John Martins] [Mrs. Mary E. Chris]
[British Microsoft Award Manager] [British Microsoft Award Secretary]

NOTE
You are hereby advised not to disclose the content of this Prize Award until your money have been remitted to you to avoid

[mata123]

Send it to spam and don't open them

[flyingtiggeruk]

Scam scam scam scam scam scam scam

See the links. There are many others if you google 124 Stockport Rd, Longsight, which, incidentally, is about 3 miles from where I'm sitting now and is in one of the poorer areas of Manchester, hardly a location to be handing out millions.

[Kittysue]

100% SCAM

there is NO Yahoo or MSN award. Neither company ever give away money

This is a phishing scam to steal your identity. Mark as Spam

[Ooops]

VSorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information. the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful

[gentlegeese598]

100% scam.

There is no lottery.

There is no Yahoo, Skype, 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.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

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.