Please let me know if this is a valid and legal offer, or if anyone has attempted to contact the FTC to file a complaint. Has anyone tried to contact YAHOO? Obvisouly I have with no response!
2006-09-20 11:17:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
Cross-border fraud is a serious problem – and it appears to be growing. For example, consumers in the U.S. and other countries lose billions of dollars each year to telemarketers operating from “boiler rooms” across the border who pitch bogus products, services and investments. They also lose money to Internet scam artists who operate anonymously from places outside the U.S. The most common cross-border frauds pushed by telemarketers, spam emailers or misleading advertisements involve phony prize promotions, foreign lottery schemes, advance-fee loan rip-offs, travel offer scams, and unnecessary credit card loss “protection.” If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
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2006-09-20 11:30:17 · answer #1 · answered by dbackbarb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I too received an e-mail to say I had won some outrageous amount of money. When I looked into it further the UK lottery board makes it clear that you cannot win without actually purchasing a ticket and that this type of e-mail is a scam. Hope this helps.
2006-09-20 11:28:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So far a sI knowit is a scam
as the pesi lottery goings round from uk. look up the government's site there on scams and they will give you an email addres sto send such scasms to. maybe soemone will get lucky and send these asses to jail.
2006-09-20 11:47:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do and this lottery is a tactic for info the more that you give your information to that sight the more you could become a victim of credit and or Identification fraud. Best thing to do is report to spam and don't open
2006-09-20 11:27:34 · answer #4 · answered by Dale B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam. Just delete it, there's nothing Yahoo or the fcc or the BBB can do about it, since it originates from overseas.
2006-09-20 11:20:19 · answer #5 · answered by Animal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get it all the time. I just mark it as spam.
2006-09-20 11:19:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋