is this real? I got it the other day.?

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                                                      UK YAHOO MAIL LOTTERY
124 Stockport Road, Long sight, Manchester M60 2 DB-United Kingdom
 
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of One Million British Pounds (£1,000,000.00) for 2011 Prize promotion which is organized by YAHOO, AOL & WINDOWS LIVE, GMAIL this 2011
 

YAHOO and MICRO SOFT wish to inform you that All participants were selected through a computer Balloting system drawn from 25,000 emails Database from Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, North and South America and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program in support of the 2012 Olympic games being hosted by the United Kingdom, Six people are selected every four months to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.

                     PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM.
 
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed not later than 28 days, from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
 
Stated below are your identification numbers: BATCH NUMBER: MFI/08/APA-43658, REFERENCE NUMBER: 2008234522 PIN:  1208 WINNING NUMBER: 01 14 21 30 35 48   
 
These numbers fall within the London Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in London, England and send your winning identification numbers to him:

CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENTS
NAME: DR PAUL LUCAS OR MRS CECILIA MOSES
E-Mail: [e-mail]
E-Mail: [e-mail]

HYPERLINK "http://us.mc1105.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=[e-mail]" \t "_blank" You are advised to send the following information to your Claims Agents to facilitate the release of your fund to you.
1. Full name.
2. Contact Address. 
3. Telephone Number
4. Fax Number.
5. Occupation.
6. Batch Number
7. Reference Number
8. Pin Number....  
9. Winning Number.

 Congratulations!! Once again.

Yours in service,                                
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Dr. (Mrs.) Mercy Hartemink

Answer 1

100% scam.



There is no lottery.



There is no Yahoo, 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 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.

Answer 2

no, its not! but its worth a check.

Answer 3

NO IT'S A SCAM