yahoo scam?

dipsy

Just received this email which I am gussing is a scam

anyone else had this?

Samuel Bent ......... what a name :-)

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YOU WON £500,000.00 IN YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY. (Reff number....YM35447XN).‏From:Susan Wright (info99@wideopenwest.com)Sent:24 May 2008 01:58:30Reply-to:barr_johnmcauley@live.comTo:
Yahoo/MsnLottery
Incorporation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te
United Kingdom

Dear lucky winner,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of (£500,000.00)
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITAIN POUNDS STERLINGS for the month of
May 2008 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC &
WINDOWS LIVE.

YAHOO&MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the
people that are active online using the internet microsoft windows, we
only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic
ballotting System without the winner applying, we congratulate you for
being one of the people selected.

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 12 days from date of
Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize
not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number...................YM 09102XN
Reff number..................YM35447XN
Winning number...................YM09788

(CONTACT EVENTS AGENT MANAGER)

BARRISTER JOHN McAULEY
Email: barr_johnmcauley@live.com
Tel:+447031918015
+447045742952

You are therefore advised to send the following information to the EVENTS
AGENT to facilitate them and process the COURIER of your money.

NAME:........................
AGE:.........................
SEX:.........................
ADDRESS:.....................
EMAIL:.......................
PHONE:.......................
OCCUPATION:..................
COMPANY:.....................
NEXT OF KIN..................
STATE........................
COUNTRY:.....................
NATIONALITY..................

Congratulations!! once again.
Yours in service,

MRS CHRISTINA JAMES
(Public Relations Officer.BRITISH EMBASSY)

Dr Samuel Bent
(Lottery Co-ordinator).

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lovestomoneysave

If you do a quick google search you will find lots of pages about this scam - it is definitely a scam

comping_cat

Yep, def a scam, i get loads of them, and just delete them!!

dipsy

thanks thought it might be :-) x

judy2357

I havent had an email like this but a couple of weeks ago I received a letter from a Mr Lu Chen Leong a Senior investment consultant saying a Mr Richard .......... (surname the same as mine) an investor of the company had died 9 months ago. His investment was worth 29 million 850 dollars. He died in an accident and his next of kin his girl friend died also. Mr Leong was inviting me to pose as a relative etc etc. Im was surprised he didnt ask for my bank details.

Guessed it was a scam as apart from anything else the surname involved was the name of my ex-husband so he would not have been my relative anyway therefore I have not replied.