YAHOO BETA LOTTERY PROMOTION

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From:     Emi Isima <emiisima@yahoo.com>
Reply-To:    emiisima@yahoo.com
Subject:    CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON THE SUM OF 450, 000.00 (GBP)
Date:    Sat, 5 Jul 2008 04:18:28 -0700 (PDT) (07:18 EDT)

WELCOME TO YAHOO BETA LOTTERY PROMOTION

NEW YEAR LOTTERY PRIZE

This is to inform you that your email address have won a prize money of FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS (£450,000.00) in the Year 2008 Lottery Prize Gift of YAHOO! LOTTERY PROMOTION which is being organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC. for the introduction and Launching of our new YAHOO BETA MAIL .

Winners of this lottery promotion were randomly selected from different email addresses ranging from yahoomail.com, rediffmail.com, hotmail.com, aolmail.com, other email addresses and webmails so as to advertise for our new Yahoo Beta Mail; to encourage internet users to switch over to our new YAHOO BETA MAIL .

Winners of this lottery were drawn and randomly selected from millions of active Online Email users and were selected through a electronic ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses users.

This results is now officially released to the public after the result was certified by the management and staff of YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS and your email address attached in the B Category with Batch number: YBM-EBS-390AF, Ref number: YBM-EBS-719AF,Winning number: YBM-EBS-798AF emerged a winners of FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS (£450,000.00) in the New Year Lottery Prize Gift of YAHOO! LOTTERY PROMOTION.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are required to contact our claims Agent BARR MARTIN WILSON for direction on how to claim your prize money. You are to contact our Claims Office with this email contact for claims: barr_martinwilson@yahoo.com
TELL: +447024093957

You must claim your Lottery Prize not later than 14 days from date of Draw Notification in which Prize has been won. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period 14 days) will be forfeited.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:

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

These numbers above fall within the United Kingdom agent's Location file, you are requested to contact him and send your Identification Numbers and Personal Information to him for claims of your prize..

You are therefore advised to send the following information to the claims agent to facilitate the processing of the transfer of your fund with the appointed paying bank.

Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him so that he will proceed further for your prize claim immediately:

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

We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!
You select how to transfer the prize money to you.

KEEP YOUR WINNING INFORMATION PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE MONEY.
NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH, DEDUCT/CUT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON. THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED STRICTLY

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of scam e-mails received each day here at 419baiter.com headquarters.

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary/commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust/diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.