Yahoo! Mail Scam

This alleged scam uses Yahoo Mail as there source of the $500,000 award granted in November. This seems like a paltry amount compared to the millions offered by the other supposed scammers. Whether it's $5 or $5 billion we don't think we'll reply....ever. Subject of this email read: You won£500 000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!

Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is
randomly selected as the one of 5 top winners accounts who will get cash
prizes from us.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money
of (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britian Pounds sterling (£500,000) for the
month of NOVEMBER, 2007. Lottery win promotion which is organized by
yahoo messenger .com every month.

YAHOO!, collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo
messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger we only
select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting
System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one
of the people selected.All participant were selected through a computer
balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from
Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and
Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted
annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our British
representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon
and your prize of £500,000 will be released to you from this regional
branch office in UK.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers

Batch number.......................Lwh 09445
Lotto number........................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447

To begin your claims, kindly contact our fiduciary agent company at this
email address:


James Smith.(Verification Unit Manager)


Tracy Kelly.(Secretary)


Email:jsmithsss_07@yahoo.co.uk



You are required to forward him with the following details:

1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADDRESS
4.SEX
5.DATE OF BIRTH
6.AGE
7.OCCUPATION
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER
9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
10.MARITAL STATUS
11.WINNING EMAIL
12.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
13.THE MONTH YOU WON

As soon as you contact the him,he will advise you on what to do in order
to get your prize money.Congratulations once more!!

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.

Yours Sincerely,

DR WILLIAM GERRI
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff