I recieved an email from a man in the United Kindom who said this: We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 45 lucky promotional prize winners. Your email I.D. was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.
Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have won a promotional cash prize of GB 2,714,000.00 (Two million,seven hundred and fourteen thousand British pounds sterlings).
The POWERBALL LOTTERY Group has approved a payout of your promotional cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you, and your cash prize has been deposited under a suspense account by the official Payment Agency Board.
I did not sign up for that. But I do need to know how much it is translatated. Thanks!
2006-08-31 15:14:40 · 6 answers · asked by iluv_19990 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I totally agree with ya'll. I read a couple of times, and I thought it didn't sound to right.
2006-09-02 04:20:01 · update #1
I concur with the other answers here. In this case, 2,714,000.00 British Pounds = $0.00, because this e-mail is a scam and a fraud.
There is no such thing as the ERSS. The British lottery does not pay out prizes by e-mail, nor does it run a draw based on 50,000 e-mail addresses.
There is only one legal lottery in the UK and it's run by Camelot, not the Powerball Lottery Group.
Google "advance fee fraud"
2006-08-31 15:30:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's alot of money (approx 6 million) But don't you think it sounds a little suspicious?
A little advice......if they ask for you to send any money (forget it). If they ask for your bank account number or credit card number so they can direct deposit the cash (forget it).
There are so many scams going around now. If they are legitimate....look up the companies name in the British phone book. Contact them in another way - other than reply e-mail. Contact your Post Master or police department and see if this company is on a list of scam organizations.
Just be careful & don't send any money or personal information...legitimate lotteries would not ask you to send funds to release prizes. Think about it, they could just take the cost off your prize amount.....couldn't they?
Be careful & if it's true Congratulations!
2006-08-31 22:28:03 · answer #2 · answered by Canadian Ken 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2,714,000.00 GBP United Kingdom Pounds = 5,166,836.47 USD
United States Dollars
1 GBP = 1.90377 USD
1 USD = 0.525273 GBP
the next time you need to do a currency conversion use www.xe.com
i would be careful with that email though, sounds like a scam to me.
2006-08-31 22:25:31 · answer #3 · answered by leezy_poo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
$ 5,167,722.39 Base on exchange rate of Sep 1, 2006
1 pound = 1.9041dollar
2006-08-31 22:27:35 · answer #4 · answered by novak-9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on exchange rate it's about $5m USD. but in reality it's nothing. It's a scam email to try and rip you off. Delete it and go about your day, you've won nothing.
2006-08-31 22:23:14 · answer #5 · answered by darkness_returns 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋