I also received the same email. Thank heaven I googled this address first. Thank you all for posting. Knowing this is a scam...Ireally hope YAHOO check on this immediately.

Yahoo Microsoft Awards Center
From The Desk Of The Promotions Manager
International Promotions/Microsoft Award Center
124 Stock port Road, Long sight,
Manchester M60 2DB - United Kingdom

Microsoft! MAIL.
Your Microsoft! AWARD!.
Winning Alert!.

This is to inform you that your email identity has emerged as one of the lucky winner of Yahoo Microsoft Award lottery prize money of USD $350, 000.00 (THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY ) for the year 2012 Lottery promotion which is been organized by Microsoft inc! for the introduction of the new Microsoft yahoo beta mail which all Microsoft users are required to switch onto to replace the old one.

Yahoo and Microsoft windows have arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to different email addresses and others through Electronic Balloting System (E.B.S) without the candidates applying for it and Nine(9) candidates was selected as our winners with batch ( A ) category and your email happens to be one of the nine lucky numbers. we wish to your email has won Microsoft lucky prize money.we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

Your Payment Approval File was sent to European and United Kingdom for payment so that it will be easy for to receive your prize money with any complications. Therefore you are to contact our United Kingdom Location Claim Representative Agent on or before your date of Claim.Microsoft Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 5 good days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won unless otherwise.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (5 days) will be forfeited unless where necessary.

These are your identification numbers:

Stake number...YBM-EBS-360AF
verification/Ref number...YBM-EBS-710AF
Winning number...YBM-EBS-718AF

Please note that you are not authorized to contact the email sender back rather you are to contact the claiming agent below.

Overseas Claims/Exchange Online Payment Unit

Contact Person: Name: Rev. Paul Atherton

Email: [email protected],

[email protected],

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

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

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

1. Full name...
2. Country...
3. Contact Address...
4. Telephone Number...
5. Occupation...
6. Age...
7. Sex...

Congratulations once again.

At your disposal, I remain.
Yours in service,

Dr. (Mrs.) Amanda Ford