2006-12-12 23:29:44 · 9 answers · asked by negreanu c 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
If you PURCHASED a lottery ticket then you would know if you won because you would have checked the numbers and seen that you did.
No company gives you a lottery prize at random when you did not pay to enter a competition. You are one of millions of people who have received a fake lottery scam email. The more you get involved in this the more likely they are to believe that they have hooked a fish and just need to reel you in. Delete the email and move on.
2006-12-12 23:43:13 · answer #1 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free Lotto is a credit card scam run by a criminal group called PlasmaNet from a P.O. box at Grand Central Station in N.Y. I am a retired Police Officer that as a hobby investigates Internet fraud. Free Lotto is one of the biggest scams. Go to www.ripoffreport.com and enter the search words Free Lotto and you will find hundreds that have been taken in. Internet Survey companies are the biggest source of scammers getting your email address. Free Lotto sells your email address to other scammers so be aware, you will, in all probability, have more scams come across your computer screen. Free Lotto, once they have your credit card information draws anywhere from $9.95 to $20.00 a month from your account. You must notify your bank in person immediatly. The checks that have come to winners from Free Lotto are in the $00.18 (18 cents) to no more than $1.00 (one dollar) range and they are drawn on accounts that don't exist. Bouncers. If you have been a victim, as many have, your local FBI Office will have an email address that you can forward the offending email to. Call your local office and ask for the address. Tell them if you are a victim or not. The Federal Communications Commission also has an investigative arm that you may forward the complaint to. Here is the Name, address and phone of the crook that runs Free Lotto. I suggest those that have been taken, is give him a call. Kevin J. Aronin, 20 Echo Bay Place, New Rochelle N.Y. (914) 654-8900. He may have changed his number by now because I have advised many that have contacted me to call him. Many complaints have gone to the Attorney General of New York but they have found no reason as yet to investigate. There are hundreds that have had their accounts stolen from even after they have "Unsubscribed" from Free Lotto so I find it curious that law enforcement has done nothing on this scam. Just be aware. I have read many of the questions on this site on lotteries and every one I have seen here is a scam. There is no free lunch, there is no "Pie in the Sky" but what there is are a lot of crooks that are very smart on the computer, but as a whole stupid on the scams they run. They play to the victims greed and the something for nothing that baits many in. Use common sense. I suggest that those that have been taken in by Free Lotto advise the I.R.S. of Income Tax fraud by Mr. Aronin. The I.R.S. will make his life more miserable than the FBI can. The FBI can jail him but the IRS will hound him for the rest of his life, in fact, even after he is dead they will hound him.
2006-12-13 14:50:33 · answer #2 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ohh, what a great way to get us all to sign up...
Have one of your employees, scam artists, etc...go onto yahoo answers where people are asking about it and say the money IS in their account. It worked for them, it could work for us ... uhhh not!
Too bad they didn't use someone that spoke good english. I may have been convinced if the word "monny" was spelled correctly. Last time I checked my bank gave me MONEY.
2006-12-13 08:31:24 · answer #3 · answered by skyblueme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you got it in your email then it's a classic 419 Scam and you should cut off any contact with the scammer ASAP and contact the police and your banks.
Have a look at the 419 Coalition website for more info http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
2006-12-13 07:47:20 · answer #4 · answered by JayUK20 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whose bank yours or theirs and if theirs where did you get the number from them or did you look it up.?
If the money is in your bank spend it and send me some.
2006-12-13 08:16:31 · answer #5 · answered by kevin_4508 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you do until the check comes back as a forgery and youre on the hook for any money you put out. knucklehead.
2006-12-13 07:33:07 · answer #6 · answered by David B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have no advice for u that is a hard question
2006-12-13 08:36:46 · answer #7 · answered by James D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if my spelling was as bad as yours then I would also be a dumbass.
2006-12-13 07:32:12 · answer #8 · answered by Chris C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what other evidence do you want?
2006-12-13 07:31:10 · answer #9 · answered by sedatedeyes209 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋