A lottery in the U.K. sent me an email stating I won thier lottery. Since I'm new on a computer I'm lost. I have phone #'s and email addresses and sorry to say ( still lost ) Please can someone help me? I need to find out if they are for real and if I really won. Any help will be rewarded. I'll be waiting..Thanks world....
2006-12-10 11:51:19 · 9 answers · asked by drmlgpj 2 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
Unfortunately, as you will soon discover as you learn about the Internet, there are many people out there looking to rip you off.
This is one such example.
Con artists are sending out a lot of these emails claiming to be representing a lottery company. They are all false. All they want from you is either money, or personal information that they can use to rip you off somehow. Never share any such information with one of these companies.
The UK lottery only pay to people who have actually purchased a ticket. There is no scenario where they simply randomly send money to foreign people who have not purchased a ticket. In fact as the only legal lottery in the UK, I think a lot of residents would have a lot to say about giving prizes to non-paying foreigners.
But if you really want to research it, here is a link to the official lottery site. I has actual email addresses you can contact if you are still concerned about it. The email addresses and numbers you have already been given belong to the con artists who sent you the email.
2006-12-10 12:23:45 · answer #1 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I have answered many on this site. I am a retired Police Officer with many years of Internet fraud investigations. I presume you either got a letter or an email stating you won the U.K. Lottery. You didn't. It's a Nigerian Internet scam and they use U.K. IP servers. They are most likely asking you for your personal information and have given you a dead line or your winning will be forfeited. The most common scam is that you must respond with an amount to pay taxes then the remainder will be sent or a line similar to that. If you did not buy a ticket to the lottery you did not win is a good rule of thumb. The most common source of them getting your address or email is from Internet survey companies that claim they will pay you to take surveys. From there your information is sold to other companies who in turn sell it again. Don't respond, you did not win. Because I have several email accounts and a couple computers using different I P's I most times will tell the scammer I am very excited but cannot let my wife know until I get the money. I then tell them to send any further email to a different address and give them the email address of another scammer. Let them scam each other.
2006-12-10 17:38:51 · answer #2 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like lotteries anywhere and everywhere, you can't win if you didn't buy a ticket. There is a lottery in the UK - see www.national-lottery.co.uk - but you have to be a UK resident to be eligible for a prize should you win, and tickets cost £1. If you have received an email saying you've won something, and you never bought a ticket, I'm afraid it's a scam. They want your bank account details so they can raid it. I get these emails almost every day.
2006-12-11 06:38:21 · answer #3 · answered by ferret 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The UK lottery includes shopping a price tag and getting it is numbers to check those who pop out of the laptop on lottery night time. It does no longer contain random emails declaring you might have gained the lottery. The lottery is truly. This electronic mail isn't.
2016-09-03 08:46:40 · answer #4 · answered by pointdexter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I received a few lotto winning from UK and Canada and called the local law officials to ask their help if I was informed that there have been a lot of this, lot of it, going on through out the US if asked to send any type of cash forget it - so long.
Just another scam if it were real the money would have been forwarded to you minus any deductions or this is the way I was informed.
Have a fine day.
2006-12-10 11:57:57 · answer #5 · answered by S.O.S. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ANYTHING online is a crock of bull.. NEVER, EVER give out ANY personal information. All they will do is get your personal information and use it to get your identity, get your money, etc. Any business dealings you do with your own banking/bills etc will even tell you that they will never ask for your personal information IE: ssn, pin, bank, etc. please please be careful. it just makes me sick that people are still thinking these things are real.
"if it sounds too good to be true, it is" don't believe it.
2006-12-10 13:52:56 · answer #6 · answered by jks336 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam - don't get sucked in by these or your bank account will be emptied. (I received 3 emails similar to yours last week - delete them!)
2006-12-10 13:27:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam...sorry.
2006-12-10 11:58:55 · answer #8 · answered by je6 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was me who sent it you muppet.
2006-12-10 12:00:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋