I had been away from the internet for a week due to some problem. And now that i was well my hands creeped first directly to the mailbox. There were hundreds of mails waiting to be read, so i went quickly through their titles. The 4th from top was a special one and caught my eyes quicly. It said "CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR E-MAIL HAVE WON US$1,000,000.00" . 99% of my mind believed it was a scam but there was that 1% which made me open that mail.

The mail was as below :
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Ref: 435062725
Batch: 7050470902/189
Winning no: GB8101/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dear Winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was
released on the 8th of August 2008,from the Australian
International Lottery programme,which is fully based
on an electronic selection of winners using their
e-mail addresses from some sites. Your email address
was attached to ticket number; 47001725 07056490102
and serial number 7741134002. This batch draws the
lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 and bonus
number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the
second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of
US$1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref: ILP/HW47509/09 from the total cash
prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this
category. All participants were selected through a
computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred
00thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,
Australia,United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East,
Africa and Oceania as part of our international
promotion program which is conducted annually. This
Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate
of some multinational companies as part of their
social responsibility to the citizens in the
communities where they have an operational base.

Furthermore, your details(e-mail address) falls within
our European representative office in Amsterdam, Holland
as indicated in your play coupon and your
prize of US$1,000,000.00 will be released to you from
this regional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope that
with part of your prize, you will participate in our
end of year high stakes for US$1.3Billion
international draw.To file for your claim, please
contact our claims department through the claims
agent:

Name: Mr.Howard Greg
Tell: +234 803-2467781
E-mail: howard_greg@hotmail.com

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number
which can be found on the top left corner of this
notification as well as your full name, address and
telephone number to help locate your file easily.For
security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this
information confidential from the public until your
claim is processed and your prize released to you.This
is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this
programme by non-participants or unofficial
personnel.Note: all winnings MUST be claimed by the
31st September, 2008; otherwise all funds will be returned
as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity
organizations.

ANYBODY UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IS AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED.

YOURS SINCERELY,

Mr.James Ross
Australian Lottery International (co-ordinator).

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Ah thats a lot to be read ! So did i really win that prize money? Thats all a scam !. First thing is that, why will someone care to to distribute such a large amount for free? It sounds so absurd when you dont pay a single penny for a lotery ticket and your email wins you such a large prize, what will the organisation get by distributing such huge prizes to unknown people? Rather such orgaisations would prefer donating it to charity organizations. Second thing you would ask is if it is a scam then why will they waste their time in sending such emails. These emails are sent to millions of people, most of the people will be aware of the scam and you will find the mail soon in their trash but but what about the rest who do not belong to the "most"?. The real game starts when these innocent people come into their traps by replying to them by mails or calls.
The process proceeds this way :
1.They promise you to pay you your winning amount.
2.They request you to pay the shipping charges (a real huge amount) for it to be delivered to your place.
3.The winner is ready to pay those charges, the big shipping or handling charges seems to be small amount infront of the huge prize.
4.The scammers recieve that amount.
5.The winner waits waits waits.

Thats so sad :( isnt it ?

So just be beware when dealing with such huge prizes ;).
Ive replied to their mail lets see what reply i get.