email lottos - legit or not?

Question

i get all kinds of winning lottery notifications from everywhere around the world, are they legit or not? how do i tell which is a real service and which is a scam? what shouldn't legitimate services ask?

Answer 1

It is a scam.
You cannot have an international lottery as the gambling laws differ in every country.
The scammers say it is "International" so as to cover every country.
If you want to check a email you think might be a scam go to www.scamomatic.com
Lotterys work like this:
1)10,000 people pay 1 dollar/euro/pound/yen....etc
The lottery company now has 10,000

2) the lottery company holds a draw and gives out 7,000 in winnings (and keeps the profit 3,000)

Scams work like this:
-1)nobody pays money (there is no money to win)

0)a scammer sends out 10,000 spam emails to tell people they have won a lottery they havn't entered.(they pretend they work for real lottery websites)

2)The Scammer asks for your Personal details (be prepared! your inbox is going to be full of emails asking for you personally...and dont get me started on what they are gonna do with your Bank details!)

3)The scammer tells you that you have to pay fees before you can accept the "winnings" (and NO,you cant pay out of the winnings! they dont exist!....silly maga)

4)The scammer manages to con 3 people out of 1000 and gives all his profits to a charity for orphaned goats (he dosn't really...he keeps it ;) )

5)Your inbox gets more mails than [e-mail]
Everything from "You have won anotther sooperdooperlottry" to "CHAN U B A NEXT OF KIN" to "Please join our company,cash our checks,send us the money until your bank realises you are laundering money for us?)

The moral of the story is...If it sounds too good to be true... It probably is

For more...look at www.fraudwatchers.org

Answer 2

Hi,

Please remember, there is no free lunch " lottery" on the Internet. I know close friends who have been scammed $650,000 Singapore dollars through such emails.

If it is so easy to win the lottery, the "organizer" will have taken all the money $. Why will he/she let people win?

One word : Greed.

Nothing beats the lottery we buy over the counter. It is safe, with receipt and guaranteed by the Government ^_^

Hope this helps - chip

Answer 3

These are 99% swindlers or advertising pricks. They're either trying to steal your money by getting personal information that you provide them when you accept their offer or they just want you to respond so they can add your email address to a million mailing groups so you get all kinds of other fake winning lottery notifications.

Answer 4

NOT!!! They're scams. You win something you never joined and their prize is unbeliveably too big. Even bigger than popular contests and lotteries. Never respond to that email. It will make you deposit certain amounts to their account for processing and other things.

Answer 5

they are all scams