Yahoo Awards Center: looks like another scam?

[Brianp]

Here's another one

Yahoo Awards Center
124 Stockport Road , Long sight,
Manchester M60 2DB
United Kingdom

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Eight Hundred, Twenty Thousand Great Britain Pounds (£820,000,00.) for the month of January, 2010 Prize promotion which is organized by YAHOO AWARDS & WINDOWS LIVE.
YAHOO collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected monthly 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 Centre. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed no 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/06/APA
REFERENCE NUMBER: 200823
PIN: 1206
Winning Number: 01_14_21_30


These numbers fall within the England Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Manchester and send your winning identification numbers to him

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM.
(CONTACT EVENTS ADMINISTRATOR)
Agent Name: Mr. David Andy.
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: 0044_703_174_2832

You are advised to send the following information to your Claims Agent to facilitate the release of your fund to you.
1. Full name...........
2. Country................
3. Contact Address.............
4. Telephone Number..........
5. Fax Number...............
6. Marital Status..........
7. Occupation................
8. My Date of birth............
9. Sex...........
10. Batch Number.............
11. Reference Number..............
12. Pin Number...........
13. Winning Number..........
14. Amount Won..........
15. Your Private Email.............

Congratulations!! Once again
Yours in service,

Dr. Schurz Scott
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Do not tell people about your Prize Award until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim.

You may also receive similar e-mails from people portraying to be other Organizations or Yahoo Inc. This is solely to collect your personal information from you and lay claim over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the notification letter that was sent to you, kindly delete it from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body.

Yahoo shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from
The above mentioned.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

 

[Bronco Lane]

Is it the Pin Number question the one that they are after? So presumably they already have a credit card number to match date of birth and address?

 

[Locke]

Really, why don't they try a little harder.

[email protected] sure seems like an official email address

A quick google tells you this is a scam. A quick read of the email will confirm it.

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[Leo]

Is it the Pin Number question the one that they are after? So presumably they already have a credit card number to match date of birth and address?

The required PIN is already given in the email.

That, or forms of it have been doing the rounds for years. Why would Yahoo, Microsoft or anyone else want to pay you for simply using the internet??? I find it hard to believe anyone could fall for this.