We received email that we won a lottery in the UK National Lottery, is this ligitimate?
2006-11-10 10:45:01 · 12 answers · asked by Louis F 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
Did you buy a lottery ticket?
If not this is a scam. I get about five per day.
Just delete it and ignore it..
www.fraudaid.com/ScamSpam/Lottery/lottery_scam_names.htm www.scambuster419.co.uk/lottery.htm
antivirus.about.com/cs/hoaxes/p/lottery.htm
www.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/lotterywin.htm
please forward it to mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com.
2006-11-10 11:38:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fraud. The UK National Lottery does not send emails to people telling them they won money.
2006-11-10 10:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by ZCT 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Delete, delete, delete!
Unless of course they're asking you to send them some money. In which case, go for it! I mean what have you got to lose?
I'm kidding of course. We get similar cons purporting to be from the Dutch lottery. They get you to send a very small amount of money, then increasingly larger amounts then never pay out.
2006-11-10 10:54:08 · answer #3 · answered by poleydee 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just to clear it up to make sure the web address for the national lottery in the uk is http://www.national-lottery.co.uk. the other one is a scam
hope to be of help
2006-11-10 11:18:10 · answer #4 · answered by dan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good God! I thought I was th only one wot won it! Damn! Now I've got to share my undeserved, unentered and entirely miraculous 'lottery' winnings with you.
I'm so pissed off!
:P
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2006-11-10 10:56:44 · answer #5 · answered by George D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had a similar one this week asking for all my details AND also to send my passport or driving licence to claim the money. What a scam. ( You get nowt for nowt in this life! - ignore it and any others you may get).
2006-11-10 13:21:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you didnt enter it and pay to enter then no its a con. Delete it.
2006-11-10 10:52:00 · answer #7 · answered by mistickle17 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I received it too. No, it must be of the new scamps
2006-11-13 11:29:52 · answer #8 · answered by seyed_mir 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't trust it, it's a con delete it
2006-11-10 10:52:43 · answer #9 · answered by Dre 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it is too good to be true, it usually is.
2006-11-10 10:54:16 · answer #10 · answered by no nickname 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋