He got a message telling him that he had won a prize and that he should pay shipping for it!
Question

                I am an internet user. I have lately received an email from an international organization specialized at developing e-mailing services. The message states that I won a prize, and to get it I should call the agent in North Africa and the Middle East. When I called him he said that I must pay for shipping from Europe to my country Algeria. What is the ruling on this prize, knowing that I have not signed up? This organization chooses yearly a number of e-mail addresses of yahoo and hotmail randomly, and then they announce the winner.
Praise be to Allah.You should realize that 
    many of these claims are no more than a cover for fraud. The purpose behind 
    contacting you and others is to get the so-called shipping costs from you, 
    but the prize does not really exist. Would the one who offers the prize 
    really be unable to afford the cost of shipping it? 
Sometimes the aim is to get 
    money by means of a phone call to a certain number. The person claims that 
    he is talking to you to work out details about the prize and how to hand it 
    over, and he talks for a long time, so that he can take the cost of the 
    phone call after working out some deal with the phone company. 
You have to guard your 
    wealth and beware of the tricks and scams that are all too common nowadays. 
If you are certain that 
    this organization really exists and that they are really offering prizes, 
    there is nothing wrong with you taking them and paying the costs of having 
    it sent to you, without taking part in advertising for this company or 
    promoting it when you do not know anything about them or the purposes for 
    which it is working or was set up. 
And Allaah knows best.