Received email from Mr. Nicholas Parker(Yahoo/Msn Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).Is it a fake lottery?

here is some part ,Dear Lucky winner "SREEPARNA BHABANI"

Your email verification form has been received and processed by this office.The Msn/Yahoo lottery in conjunction with the Microsoft Windows live felicitate with you and your family for being one(1) of our five(5) winners selected on this lottery promotion stake for the month of January.This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users and subscribers of the Msn,Yahoo and other microsoft internet Windows.

We do believe with your winning prize,you will continue to be active and more patronage to the Msn,Yahoo and other microsoft Windows.I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all our online winners.


A winning cheque valued: (860,000.00)Eight Hundred And Sixty Thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterling,has been issued in your name by the Msn/Yahoo Lottery Incorporation board,

It's fraudulent.

You shouldn't open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers.( http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam.... )

However, in this case since you have already opened up this email which is a probably a variant of the 419 Nigerian phishing scheme, display all headers and send it to Fraud Watch International. The email address is in the link to the webpage below.
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/l...

There are a couple Yahoo pages dedicated to the 419 Fraud
Yahoo Lottery Fraud
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/a...

Microsoft also has a similar webpage
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yoursel...

Haha. What do you think?

Yes, it's a fake.

Ha/Ha/Ha
"There's a sucker born every minute"
There's a bridge in Brooklyn for sale too.
You better mark this as spam .
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