i received an email about: Division of Yahoo/Windows Live Msn Internet Award is it valid email?

[Zahra Jalili moghadam]

is it valid email?
Hello/dear yahoo
I received an email about: Division of Yahoo/Windows Live Msn Internet Award
I Would like to know is it valid email. I look forward to hearing from you.
That email include:
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
YOU HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AS ONE OF OUR TOP FOUR LUCKY WINNERS.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Yahoo / Windows Live Msn
125 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8AD, London- United Kingdom.
All the executive members of Yahoo/Windows Live Msn Management Team wishes to inform you that you have won a prize money of Seven Hundred, Twenty Thousand Great Britain Pounds (£720,000,00.) for 2012 Prize promotion which was organized by YAHOO MANAGEMENT TEAM & WINDOWS LIVE MSN on Thursday, 20th September 2012 to celebrate our 19 years anniversary since we become the best free e-mail provider worldwideThese identification numbers fall within UK Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Manchester UK, Dr Clement Owen through his below contact details and submit your File & Reference numbers to him; Note your Pin NO will be sent to you by Dr Clement Owen once you open contact with him for some security reasons.
Agent Name: Dr Clement Owen
E-mail: drclementowen@live.com
E-mail: drclementowen@yahoo.co
You are advised to send the below information to your Claims Agent Dr Clement Owen through his e-mail to facilitate the release of your award-winning prize to you immediately. 1. Your File & Reference No 2. Nationality/ Country of Residence 3. Contact Address 4. Telephone Number 5. Occupation 6. Age
Congratulations!!! Yours in service,
David Filo & Jerry Yang
Co-founders and Chief Yahoo.
Co-founders and Chief Yahoo.
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WARNING!!! Keep your winning information confidential until your award prize are successfully transferred or handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise due to double claiming. You may also receive similar e-mails from people portraying to be Windows Live or Yahoo Inc. This is solely to collect your personal information and lay fake claims over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the award notification letter that was sent to you today, kindly delete it from your mailbox and give no further correspondence to such person or body.
Yahoo/Windows Live shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned and any winning notification that was not from David Filo & Jerry Yang (Co-founders and Chief Yahoo)and sign by Yahoo and Windows Live Board of Directors will be cancelled.
Signed By: Yahoo and Windows Live Board of Directors:
Elisa Steele (Chief Marketing Officer), Michael J. Callahan(Executive Vice President), Jerry Yang(Co-founder and Chief Yahoo),Blake Jorgensen (Chief Financial Officer) and Other members.

[dlowery]

No, it isn't real.

[ksea]

100% fake, its a scam.
do not fall for it, delete it.

[Ooops]

Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information. the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful

[Kittysue]

This scam has been going around for 10 years. Yahoo NEVER gives away cash or prizes. Never has, never will

[miniaturebadge428]

100% scam.

There is no lottery.

There is no Yahoo, Facebook, Nokia, Shell, BBC, Google, Coca-Cola, MSN, Microsoft, BMW or any other company in the entire world that sponsors a lottery that notifies winners via email, phone call or text.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lottery official" and will demand you pay for made-up fees and taxes, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even partial sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

If you google "fake yahoo lottery", "lotto Western Union fraud" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam.