hi i have been informed that i have won a lottery due to a number attacthed to my mail id .will that work?

Question

please inform about this lottery .they said that it is from South africa. they are asking me to come over there.?
is this true .do any body have got this before.will it work?
the amount is about 200,000 million US dollors. i cant belive this
and they have sent a bank name too .the bank name is FNB

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Just think about this for a moment. America is the richest country in the world and even here it is rare for the lottery to reach $200,000,000. I assume you mean $200 million, not $200 billion as you wrote.

So how likely does it sound to you that a South African lottery would roll over again and again until the prize was worth $200m. Then they pick some guy at random using their email address and simply give them the money?

There are really only two ways to win money in this manner. One is to BUY a lottery ticket and get very lucky. The other is to enter some kind of sweepstakes with a legitimate company, who is using the sweepstakes as a way to publicize something.

Other than that, people don't just contact you to give you millions of dollars. Life does not work like that.

This illegal organization simply want you to believe there is a chance you have won some money. Then if they can convince you of that, they will try to get money and/or personal information out of you that they can use to con you.

Answer 3

This is a 419 scam. If you don't know what that means look it up at wikipedia.com. Basically what they want to do is steal your hard earned money.

Answer 4

Do not respond to these scams.

Answer 5

spam spam spam

Answer 6

it is a lie duh