I got a weird email from the UK National Lottery, is this a scam, can I get the money here in the US?

Question

I was like HOLY CRAP. But its garbage

Answer 1

Prolly a scam. Let me guess, they want personal information or cash up front to give you money for something you have never heard of or entered.

Answer 2

There is no UK National Lottery or any other lottery that you can win without buying a ticket. There are many variants of this scheme including the imaginary Yahoo, MSN, or Windows Live lotteries. These are simply attention grabbing tags to bait people into sending money to complete strangers. In reality, these are all nigeria scams. You can report them to the U.S. Secret Service and you can find their website with a simple Yahoo Search. You really shouldn't count on seeing your money ever again though. This nonsense has all of the signs of a scam. There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades. The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy. But this is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question. If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud.

Answer 3

If you do not check a company before entering into a transaction, you could lose your money, time and credibility. Some widely used resources are the Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org) and the national fraud center (www.fraud.org) these days, you can easily find out more about a company using the internet in a few minutes. From a company's website, you can details about its ownership, how old the company really is and feedback from the company's customers.
You can find more detailed information about a company at http://tinyurl.com/gtb89

Answer 4

Well I know it's definitely a scam now. I got the same email about 3 weeks ago. Also afew where some rich old coot has died and they want lil ol me to help them recover the money. HA, I say.

Answer 5

Yes it is a scam. Do not reply or provide any iinformation.

Have you entered in any UK National Lottery lately? Yes... didn't think so...

Answer 6

you are never going to win a lottery "via" the e-mail... LOLOLOL you shouldn't even have to ask this question.... unfortunately nothing is free anymore, certainly not money..... its an obvious scam

Answer 7

if you didn't signup for it then it's a scam. even the ones you signup for are sometimes scams.

here is what others are saying about this scam
http://www.google.com/search?q=uk+national+lottery+scam

Answer 8

yes and i bet they want you to send money right? what kind of lottery gives you money but you gotta first give them money? its a scam, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is

Answer 9

my friend did something like this w/ the UK and was burned 5000.00 and she hardly can survive. crap it is

Answer 10

scam for sure:
http://www.lottery.co.uk/info/scams.asp