I get a letter from them saying i won the lottery
2006-07-26 13:44:33 · 5 answers · asked by pbt 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Credit
It is fake. Do not fall for this - I work in a bank and we hear about these international lotteries all the time. Do not respond in any way, shape, or form. As for myself, I've won literally hundreds of lotteries according to the junk e-mail!
2006-07-26 14:05:44 · answer #1 · answered by ginabgood1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is an old saying that keeps going around.
"If it sounds to good to be true, it PROBABLY IS" I get at least 3 or 4 emails a week in my bulk mail telling me I have won the Spanish lottery, the United Kingdom Lottery, the Canadian Lottery, the Bill Gates International Microsoft Lottery, etc.
If you fall for these and access their site, they will lead you through a series of websites to get you to reveal your personal information, which is EXACTLY what they want.
They also use the old Nigerian and African stories, of some Exiled member of a Royal or Senior Vice President of some company who was killed in a plane crash leaving hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars and needs a silent partner to help get the money out of the country, as they can't trust the family and the government wants the money.
They are all scams. Simply delete them. If you use yahoo, set them as spam and they will go to your bulk folder where you can set it to delete without even seeing them. If you do this though, make sure you have no messages coiming into your bulk folder as they will be deleted. I screen my bulk folder daily even though at times I have over 100 bulk messages.
Just simply stop and think about the sender. Does the sender look anything like this: SpanishLottery winner announce, or You have won
Read the send closely and you can tell junk from possible legitimate. Then if it looks legit, read it a couple of times and look real close for the spelling and wording.
2006-07-26 13:53:58 · answer #2 · answered by handyman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you play this lottery? Have you ever lived in Spain?
Dang, what is it going to take to realize they are scams to the millionth degree!
It's illegal to play international lotteries anyway.
Use your cranium, man!
2006-07-26 16:10:39 · answer #3 · answered by Celeste 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The popular "Nigerian" Scam. This of direction is a moderate twist on it. Oh you received cash now pay us to supply it to you. Think approximately this for a second. They have the cash. They owe it to you. YET they want YOU to supply them cash to switch it. Wouldn't they set the winner's cash apart for switch bills? I imply say I owe you 1 and it is going to price me one hundred,000 to switch. So would not I make the highest prize 900,000 and maintain apart that switch rate? Alot of men and women do not make an effort to consider that by way of. That is why the rip-off works.
2016-08-28 17:21:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know but be careful.
2006-07-26 13:48:30 · answer #5 · answered by Mrs. Butler ♥2 B♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋