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The email you received informing you that you have won a prize in a (fake) Yahoo lottery is a SCAM and is not sent by Yahoo, but sent by thieves who are using the Yahoo logo to try to scam people. If you click on the below link this site confirms various email scams hitting the internet and provides an online form for the reporting of such – (with links for your own country.)

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotteryscam_Yahoo.php

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yoo2.phpahoo/…

Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Please remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace.
Check out these sites for further information :

http://www.scambusters.com

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/