Urgent report froom (yahoo!) regards to your email.?

I got an e-mail yesterday form yahoo. stoline taht t had won a prize amounting $ 500.000. yet l wonder is it a reel mail form yahoo. could you plase help me on the validity of this mod I have yet?


here is the initial get at the mail.








Please do not reply to this message. The unsubscribe winner candidate commercial email, see the instructions at this message.





Yahoo!


Customer Care .


701 First Avenue


Sunnyvale, CA94089. USA








CONGRATULATIONS!!





Dear Lucky Winner,





This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (US$500,000.00 ) in the YEAR 2006/2007 YAHOO! Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC for the introduction and Launching of the new YAHOO BETA MAIL which all YAHOO! subscribers are required to switch to YAHOO! %26amp; MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the Millions that subscribe at YAHOO!, HOTMAIL and others we only selected THRE

Urgent report froom (yahoo!) regards to your email.?
100% SCAM. Yahoo doesn't have lotteries or cash giveaways. If they did, you can be sure there would be a LOT of advertising for it all over their web sites. Just delete that email, and any others like it that you are likely to get. DON'T reply to it, and certainly DON'T click any links in it.
Reply:This is not an email from yahoo, I have received several of these and forward them to the yahoo abuse department as soon as I get them. If you ever receive an email from anyone saying you have won a "lottery" no matter how legitimate it looks, don't beleive it they come from scammers who want your information and to steal your money. If you want confirmation forward the email to yahoo at abuse@yahoo.com and they will send you a reply within a couple of days letting you know that it did not come from them, don't forget to include the full header of the email as well.
Reply:send me $500 and I will claim your winning for you
Reply:Spam scam. Forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov and abuse@yahoo.com.
Reply:ABOUT YAHOO NOT HAVING A LOTTORY OR FROM SOME WHERE ELSE





First did you play yahoo or any lottery


CLICK HERE


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


here is my short answer


this is a real problem


you are not the first victim of this cruel attempt to get your personal info


if you have not replied don"t


if you do you will get an email needing you to send bank account info so they can release the funds


hold on they owe you money


theres a red light


wish it was true


sorry


DO ALL THIS TO PREVENT THESE KINDS OF EMAILS


BLOCKING A SENDER


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


open email program


choose options at top right of the page


then choose block senders


then type in address


OR JUST CLICK THE SPAM BUTTON IT WILL DO IT FOR YOU


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...


YAHOO FILTERS LINK


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...


go to mail page


choose options top right corner of the page


then Filters


set it up


choose words like you see in email in subject line


this seems to work best


BULK MAIL OPTIONS


open mail program


on right side choose options


then General Preferences


Then Special Folders:


check these two boxes


Save your sent messages in the Sent Items folder


Redirect incoming unsolicited mail to the Bulk Mail folder


you will never see bulk email again


YAHOO EMAIL HELP AND CONTACT THEM


http://help.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/securit...


REPORT SPAM REPORT ABUSE


phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com.


report spam from yahoo and q%26amp;a


Answers-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com


y_answers_team@yahoo.com


customer care cc-advoc@yahoo-inc.com


email yahoo at this address


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


MORE AGENCYS


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/


Federal Trade Commission: spam@uce.gov


Treasury Department: 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/


FTC: http://www.ftc.goV/


Treasury Department: 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/fe...


USE FILTERS TO AUTOMATICALLY HAVE EMAILS SENT TO A FOLDER ETC


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/mail/...


MORE INFO ABOUT SECURITY


http://security.yahoo.com/
Reply:Spam alert there, Report it to Yahoo abuse. Spam emails commonly have mispellings. If you gave up the email addresses of your address book they are in for it too, so dont make the matter worse.
Reply:If it is legit, I don't think it was a spelling contest
Reply:There is no Yahoo or Internet Lottery, it's a scam.





I used to post links to the debunking articles about this, but I've seen so many questions about this absurd "Yahoo Lottery" that I don't bother anymore. The people posting clearly can't be bothered to type two words into a search engine, or read the links Yahoo brings up when you try to submit a question about it.





Here's a link to a Yahoo Question from a guy who fell for the scam:





http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...