Is this email scam or not scam?

OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS AGENTS


SEASONS PROMOTION 2007


20 Howard Barking London, 7UA11G


UNITED KINGDOM


(Customer's Service Center)


Promoter: Microsoft庐


Draw, JANUARY 9. 2007





ATTENTION:








RESULT CONFIRMATION MLTT/MTU/2007ETN FOR REF. NUMBER MCS/231OXI/04


Congratulations! You are among the ten (10) randomly selected for the new year draws held in London. Selection was made using special software to generate valid email addresses at random from over 40,000 company and 20,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world. All facilities and computer software were tested by Statisticians.


Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 5224652456UT with serial number 5388/02, batch number 12L/2005/04, lottery ref number MCS/231OXI/04 and drew lucky numbers 06 - 14 - 17 - 25 -32 - 48 bonus ball 09 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus.





Apparently, 10 individual email addresses were selected to recieved from a total cash prize of 3.5 million pounds. You have therefore been approved for the total sum of 350,000.00pounds (three hundred and fifty thousand pounds) in cash credited to file MLTT/MTU/2005ETN.





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Please read and follow all enclosed instructions very carefully. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security Protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. You are to contact your fiduciary agent for further instruction on the prize/payment schedule.


To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:





MR.DONALD FUSO.


CLAIM AGENT


E-Mail: claimsagent_microsoftpayment@yahoo.co.uk...


Tell:++447011136734





Remember, all winning in this second category must be claimed not later than 30th JANUARY 2007. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.


Congratulations once more from our members and staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Note that you must contact your fidiciary agent within one week of receipt of this notice.





Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.


Sincerely,


MRS. MELINA SWART


Co-ordinator


Verification Unit

Is this email scam or not scam?
Definitely spam! That is quite clearly a made up Yahoo username. If you have a look at any email you have received from Yahoo, you will notice the difference in the email address. This email address is .'......@yahoo.co.uk', take a look at this example of an email I received from Yahoo Answers, this is the email ad it came from: answers-alert@cc.yahoo-inc.com. Notice the difference?..... Don't take note of the email....it is spam, scam and whatever else! Be well ;)
Reply:Of course it is!


Lotteries to which you have not entered are part of a larger commercial scam: getting you involved in a larger one.


Should you follow through, you may win a few quids, but these will drag you to BUY other things and so on. In the end, you will find yourself out of a lot of cash.


Remember, there is nothing like a free meal!


(You can also report this message to the association of consumers or even to authorities [FBI, scotland yard etc]).


Best of luck.
Reply:Scam ...