does anyone else keep getting e mails saying you have won the lottery portugese irish uk and american?

Question

has anybody benefitted from these ' scams'

Answer 1

Millions of em, and yes many have profitted, the sponsors, the police are having a hard time catching them,they change their addresses so often, some of them are here in britain too.They ask people for their bank details then clean them out

Answer 2

No but I won the Australian Lottery and I have dead relatives in South Africa as well, Silly Scams

Answer 3

I keep getting those, too. When they first started, I responded to one just to see what it was about. They exchanged emails with me several times, telling me all about how the money was to be handled. Then, finally, I was told that, to complete the deal, I would have to send them money to effect the transfer of funds from, in this case, England. I wrote back and told them to take it out of my winnings, and they replied that was against the law. I wrote once more saying I understood perfectly, and that I would wire the money immediately upon receipt of my winnings. I never heard from them again.

Answer 4

I get one's say that prince of some country that I have never heard of or daughter of a dead coco merchants father died and left them money in American money and needed an account to put it in and in return they would give $10,000 or something like that. The best thing is not to open those.

Answer 5

Oh sure, I get them quite often. I also get variants of the Nigerian Scam.

Somehow, someway, I got put on some list as someone who might fall for that. Never have, never will.

I usually just block them. If you unsubscribe, you get listed as a valid active email, and they sell your name over and over again. I have unsubscribed before, but stopped that practice.

I report them as junk mail, and let the Internet Portal or ISP deal with it.

Answer 6

Nobody benefits, except the scammers if you send them any personal information. Same with the Nigerian widow who wants to put millions into your account--just sent her your bank account number! You should delete those emails immediately without clicking on anything.

Answer 7

NO delete them or report as spam that's what i do
if you haven't entered anything how can you win?
this is why these scammers keep going because as the saying goes a fool and his money are soon parted

Answer 8

I didn't.

I don't think anyone who received it benefit from the scams but they do benefit to the scam if they believe it!

Answer 9

I guess the "scammers" would be benefiting, but pretty much everybody else would come out as losers.

Answer 10

That's the sort of stuff you get when you go searching for free software on the web.