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  by jonpaul
 
I received this last week and wanted to post this so no one gives information and gets scammed. This is what it said:

We (Facebook Lottery Team And QATAR Foundation Donation) proudly announce! that your E-MAIL ACCOUNT has been selected as one of the lucky winners and has won the sum $1,000,000.00USD (One Million United State Dollars ) in the on-going Face-book/Qatar online award promo. Your Ticket number is 00645 168 564766.

Prize #77801209/FBQ,
WINNING NUMBER: FBQ/575061725/2013
Serial number 5467/2013/FBQ
Lucky numbers: 18 88 09 37 47
  by jolly_roger
 
Yes indeed it is a scam jon. If Facebook had something like this going on it would be posted on the site. fb would not have emailed you. This is a type of 419 scam.