Dear ,
As part of an International Publicity Campaign to introduce
FreeLotto and our latest Ten Million Dollar Winner, you have
been selected to receive a GUARANTEED CASH AWARD of up to
$2,087.56.
Click here to claim
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and when I open the link they ask for my address and name, should I fill the forms, or they are cheater?
2006-08-04 23:19:03 · 10 answers · asked by QuestionAnswer 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
NO!
DON'T CLICK!
WHY SHOULD YOU!?
Becuase, you don't even know who they are, so don't click it.
It will definetely STEAL than GIVE.
2006-08-04 23:22:43 · answer #1 · answered by Sp()oNg3Y::V.3.[] 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are simply harvesting you, and trying to STEAL your money, or, gather your addresses for future exploits, for sale to other spammers, and/or to garner your data/all email addresses in your mail accounts, for future bot armies! If it seems too good to be true, it IS!!!
Also, you cannot 'WIN' a lottery you didn't pay to enter! And, ;you cannot enter to win a lottery, AFTER the drawing!!! No lottery would charge you money in advance to collect the prize - like those sites in Nigeria try to do!
What a thrill to see that a bunch of those folks were captured and prosecuted last week, and will be sent off to long sojourns in prison, in Nigeria, and, in the USA!
If you took an older computer box, set it up with IPCOP http://ipcop.org then, it would filter out the spam, block bad domains, and even filter web page content! It can serve up to about 36 users.
It can also maintain the connection and pre-load all of your email, so you are online instnatly, if you have broadband cable access, or DSL! It can run Spam Assassin, AVG, also! IT will protect ALL computers on your networks!
And, try out a LIVE CDrom that runs in the CD, and loads a RAMdisc! http://pclinuxos.com and 309 of them are at htp://livecdlist.com
2006-08-05 06:38:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am in complete agreement, email from total strangers, promising the moon, or, in this case, free money as an introduction, it usually a scam..
The same with any email that comes in and tells you that the sons, daughters, wives, boyfriends, etc, of some president of a country in Africa, especially Nigeria, have picked YOU, from the untold millions who they know nothing about, have been chosen to help them launder millions of dollars from their country by giving them your banking info. But, of course, the banking info request doesn't come right away, and, if you do send it, you will find that any money you already had is now gone to their bank accounts.
To make a long story short.. which I haven't... Noooo.. don't dooooo itttt..
2006-08-05 06:27:43 · answer #3 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a spyware.
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2006-08-05 06:26:25 · answer #4 · answered by vijju 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, if they were I'd be rubbing elbows with celeb's and other rich folk. I saw a question like this the other day and one answer was to report them to the FBI, I don't remember the website, though.
2006-08-05 06:25:11 · answer #5 · answered by crazy8s622 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. they are scams. Delete them immediately. All they want is your credit card number etc.
2006-08-05 06:24:32 · answer #6 · answered by ictl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
these are tricks by hackers to get your e-mail address
2006-08-05 06:24:24 · answer #7 · answered by NayaMee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont click. All this is fake!!
2006-08-05 06:24:50 · answer #8 · answered by FunkyGirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
truly it is fake.........
don't give away any of ur information on these scams!
2006-08-05 06:39:49 · answer #9 · answered by YUNGMAC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MARK them as SPAMS. they r just holy SHITS!
2006-08-05 06:31:34 · answer #10 · answered by Drifter 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋