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Is this a scam From: Yahoo! Promotion Award Team Subject: LUCKY YOU!!! To: Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 7:09 AM FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL GRANTS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT REF:YAHOO6/315116127/27 BATCH:15/623/UK. The prestigious YAHOO! has set out and successfully organized a Sweepstakes marking the Begining of the year 2010 anniversary we rolled out over £5,000,000.00 (Five Million Great British Pounds) for our new year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage. The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalized email addresses to ticket numbers. If you ignore this, you will regret it later. Yahoo! and Microsoft are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Yahoo and Microsoft are running an e-mail beta test. Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 883734657492- 5319 with REF:YAHOO7/315116127/27 and drew the BATCH:15/623/UK which subsequently won you £1,000,000.00 (One Million Great British Pounds) as one of the 10 jackpot winners in this draw. You have therefore won the entire winning sum of £1,000,000.00 (One Million Great British Pounds). The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in 44 Moorfields London EC2Y 9AL UNITED KINGDOM on the 10TH of April 2010. These Draws are commemorative and as such special. Please be informed by this winning notification, to file your claims, you are to make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide you through the process to facilitate the release of your prize. To file for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent. Mae Summers Yahoo! Promotion Award Team Email: [email protected] Phone: + 44-702 407 1504 You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following details to avoid unnecessary delays and complications: 1. Your Full Names 2. Address & Country 3. Ref: Numbers 4. Batch Number 5. Phone/fax 6. Age / Marital Status 7. Occupation. 8. How do you Feel as a Winner. Thank you for being part of our commemorative Anniversary Draws. Congratulations from the entire Staff of Yahoo! Inc Sincerely, Yahoo! Promotion Award Team.

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What you can do as well ( and it wont hurt) is ask them if you could have only 30% of the winnings and you will give them 70% as good faith, and see how these scam dingbats answer you.
good luck!

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Hello,

Yes, its a scam, a very obvious one, for that matter.

Just ignore the scam and delete it from your mail.

Please don't fall victim, delete it and don't attend to it at all.

Take care

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