confarmation about this lottry prize ? U.K.N.F LOTTO PROMOTION U.K.N.F NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS LONDON.?

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You won $400,000,00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!
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CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU WON $400,000,00!
Get ed traffic to your web site!






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U.K.N.F LOTTO PROMOTION
U.K.N.F NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS LONDON.
Dear Sir/Madam

We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of Four Hundred thousand Us Dollar ($400,000.00) for the month of MARCH lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO!.

Annually YAHOO! collects all the E-mail id's of the people that are online on yahoo amongs the Millions that subscribe to YAHOO!, Eight People Are Been selected All Over The World.

Our Winners Are Selected Through Electronic Balloting System Without The Winner Applying.We Are Congratulating You For Being One Of The People Selected For This Second Random For The Year 2011.

These Are Your Winning Identification Numbers.......

* TICKET NUMBER ............................... Uknf 6781345
* BATCH NUMBER ............Uknf 20 25 65 90 43 15 78
* SERIAL NUMBER ............................. Uknf 6/984/120
* DRAW NUMBER ............ Uknf 0009857/16738/00001
* CATEGORY .......................................... 2nd
* REFERENCE NUMBER ... Uknf 23 441 753 271 9746.


Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Asian representative's booklet in beijing china as indicated in your FILE NUMBER: FD2349QUID. In view of this, your won prize Cheque money of $400,000.00 U.S.Dollars would be released to you by Our Asian Fiduciary Agent, Our Asi an Fid uciary Agent will immediately commence the process to facilitated the release of your checks as soon as you Contact Barrister Steven Cheng office in china.

To Begin Your Claims, Kindly Contact The Fiduciary Agent For Your Prize

BARRISTER STEVEN CHENG.
EMail:[e-mail].
Telephone:[phone].

Claim Your Prize Without Any Further Delay. Otherwise Your Prize Will Be Returned Unclaimed To Our National Headquarters In Holland And Will Be Donated To Charity Homes.

You Are Required To Forward To Your Agent With The Following Details:

1.FULL NAMES...............
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN............
3.DATE OF BIRTH...............
4.OCCUPATION.............
5.TELEPHONE NUMBERS............
6. TICKET AND LOTTO NUMBER .............
7. SERIAL NUMBER .....
As soon as you contact Him He Will Advise you on the Procedure to claim your Won Prize Money Immediately.

NOTE: YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO KEEP ALL YOUR WINNING CONFIDENTIAL TILL CLAIM IS MADE TO AVOID WRONG OR DOUBLE CLAIMING.ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIAL DISQUALIFIES YOU FROM GETTING YOUR PRIZE.


YOUR ADDRESS HAS WON

Congratulations Once More!

Answer 1

Of course it is a scam. Why would Yahoo need to give away $400,000 ? If the lottery is in England, why is the prize in dollars not pounds ?

Why can't they speak English properly ?

Answer 2

100% scam.



There is no lottery.



There is no Shell, BBC, Yahoo, 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 3

It's a SCAM



If this was from the UK they would not be using Chinese and Slovakian email addresses



There is NO such thing as a UKNF promo



There is NO promotion in the UK that gives away money in US$ as that's not legal tender in the UK



Delete it

Answer 4

Sorry 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

Answer 5

big scam - did you buy a ticket? the next thing you will be asked for is your bank account number etc and before you know it you will have no money at all.

Answer 6

Delete this and forget it.They will want your bank details and rob you of whatever you have.I have lost count of how many times i have received similar emails.



It's a con