Check this out how can Yahoo let this stuff get through to your Yahoo address they must be idiots?

Messenger Yahoo! Lottery Results you won £400,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!





Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo Lottery Draw held on the 27th of October, 2007.





All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada , Australia , United States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of 400,000.00 GBP (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING ).





This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities 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 400,000.00 GBP will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK.





HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE





These are your identification numbers:-





Batch number.....................Lwh09445


Lotto number.......................Lwh09446


Winning number...................Lwh09447





Yahoo’s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:





FIDUCIARY AGENT Email: onlineverificationdepartment@rediffmail....





You are to send the completed verification form below to our Agent in the United Kingdom whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!





FULLNAME:





AMOUNT WON:





DATE OF BIRTH:





RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:


SEX:





MERITAL STATUS:





COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:





OCCUPATION:





COMPANY NAME:





TELEPHONE:





E.MAIL:





INDICATE PREFERRED MODE OF PRIZE COLLECTION:





(A) CHEQUE:





(B) DRAFT:





(C) TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER:





DATE NOTIFIED:





APPROVED FOR PAYMENT.





THIS FORM IS TO ENABLE US HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRIZE WINNER WHICH WILL BE





FOWARDED TO OUR MANAGEMENT BANK FOR YOUR TRANSFER OF FUND AND THE RELEASE OF WINNER'S CERTIFICATE TO YOU.





PLEASE FILL IT AND SEND TO US FOR YOUR DOCUMENTS OF CLAIM. AS SOON AS YOU FILL THIS FORM, THE MANAGEMENT WILL FORWARD IT TO THE BANK FOR THE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND TO YOUR BANK AND YOUR WINING CERTIFICATE WHICH WILL BE SENT TO YOU AS A BONAFIDE WINNER.





Again, remember, all funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as Unclaimed and donated to charity organization.





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-selected winner or unofficial personnel.





Yours Sincerely,


Terry S. Semel


Chief Executive Officer (CEO)


YAHOO INC.


Yahoo.com®


http://www.yahoo.com





Yahoo! Lottery Results.


Yahoo! Lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! registered user.

Check this out how can Yahoo let this stuff get through to your Yahoo address they must be idiots?
ive had heaps of them and i replied to one with false id and made up street name etc and i got a reply back asking for all my id bank account etc so i gave more false info with swear words in it and im still getting replys from them in my spam i rang the federal police and they said it was from south africa and i should delete all messages from them as they will rip u off ie drain your bank account if u give them ANY DETAILS that are true so dont reply with true details ok hope ive helped good luck
Reply:A. Yahoo doesn't "let" this stuff through.


B. Only idiots open spam.


C. Spam is a world-wide problem and Yahoo is the world's largest supplier of free email. Ergo, Yahoo gets more than it's share of spam.


D. Yahoo provides one of the best free spam filters and a spam button.


E. Only idiots believe all the rest of us don't get this crap also and spam it UNOPENED!
Reply:Report it as spam and they will never do it again.