I got an email from Dave Cook co-founder of myyearbook.com. Is it a scam?

[Ariel]

On behalf of my Sister Catherine Cook and I, We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of winners of online lotto Program held on 2nd of February, 2012 through a computer random system, Your Profile is attached to Ticket number 113-0705649, with Serial number 116238098 won in the first category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of $450,000.00 in cash credited to file REF: 162361412 from the total cash prize for twelve (12) lucky winners in this category

More than 33 million people are on myYearbook making friends, playing games, and even falling in love. We are dedicated to just one thing - making meeting new people as fun and as easy as possible. All participant were selected through an online game in More than 17 million people E-mail address on this website from the listed countries: Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Program is promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies(corporate sponsors: Citibank, Fed Ex, Google Inc, Coca cola, Health Net, American Airlines, Bank of America, Staples, Wal Mart / Sam's Club, McDonald’s, Omega World Travel and IBM, UNICEF). as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the Aspect that impacts peoples lifestyle worldwide. myyearbook is for all ages, all nationalities, all backgrounds -- everyone!

Further more your winning details falls within our American representative office in Central London, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of $450,000.00 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars) will be released to you from our branch office in United Kingdom. These are your winning details:
Ref: 162361412
Batch: 9214194899/G43
Winning no: GA57011/PRC
Ticket number: 113-0705649
Serial number: 116238098

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Million International Draw.

Please be informed that your CHECK of the sum of USD$450,000.00 is now at the payee center in United Kingdom. Please Contact myyearbook Claim Office and Submit your "Personal Details" so that they will re-insure your winning under your full names and remit your winnings.

Fill the form below and send to,
Name - Jean Horton
E-mail address- myyearbookclaimboard01 @ gmail.com
Live Support- icq #631711417.

Please quote your winning details and your information, this will help locate your file easily.

PERSONAL DETAILS.

FULL NAME : ..................................................

TICKET NUMBER: .......................................

ADDRESS : .......................................................

CITY : ..................................................................

STATE: ...............................................................

COUNTRY: .......................................................

ZIP CODE: ........................................................

PHONE NUMBER(S): ................................

GENDER: ............................................................

For security reasons and due to the mix-up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this notification strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by non-participants of this program, This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note: All winnings MUST be claimed before the end of this program; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity organizations.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT (Jean Horton) HERE - myyearbookclaimboard01 @ gmail.com
ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.

NOTE THAT FOR SECURITY REASONS, THIS NOTIFICATION WILL BE DELETED AS SOON AS YOU GET THE DETAILS DOWN.

Once again Congratulations on your winnings.
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Happy New Year!!!.

[Mrarroyo]

NEVER fill out ANYTHING that asks for your information IF IT ASKS NOT TO REPLY. That means that it is TOTALLY automated and that all of those numbers are randomly generated. They can steal your identity if you give them you're info. Don't do it, you didn't win anything, sorry lol!!! Don't trust any emails that say do not reply...

[Dylan]

its 100% fake, don't be gullible

[agreeablewing751]

100% scam.

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.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even 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.

[Kittysue]

This scam has been around for months. It's a phishing scam to steal your personal details, then they will steal all your money

Mark as Spam and Delete

Myyearbook NEVER gives away money. Besides, if it were really from them they would NEVER ask for your name or other details as they would already have it by your profile. This is a scammer who wants to commit identity theft

[Omnibin]

100% scam, flag and delete.