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My sister sent me an email asking if the attached email she received is legitimate. It says she won $300,000 from Yahoo Lottery Inc. I'd say beware of these type of emails. If you don't remember entering in the lottery, never reply. These people are professionals. We even received scam lottery mails from the local post office. Anyway, here's how the scam email look.

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($300,000.00) for the YEAR 2006 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for the introduction of the new YAHOO BETA MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch onto.

YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arrange and gather all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail, and others we only select FIVE (5) candidates per annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to Africa due to we have 3 lucky winners in Africa so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our African Location Claim Agent on or before your date of Claim.

Yahoo Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 7 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (7 days) will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-390AF
Reff number........................YBM-EBS-719AF
Winning number...............YBM-EBS-798AF

These numbers above fall within the African agent's Location file, you are requested to contact her and send your Identification Numbers and Personal Information to her;

MR HASSAN .K. DUKE at his email:

E-mail: agenthassan@uku.co.uk

Phone: +2348067778061

You are therefore advised to send the following information to her to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund with the appointed paying bank.

Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to her immediately:

Personal Information
1. Full name..................
2. Country....................
3. Contact Address......
4. Telephone Number..
5. Marital Status..........
6. Occupation................
7. Age.............................
8. Sex..............................