I have recieved an e-mail confirming tha I have won a secondary prize or 1,200,000 lbs from a source in England. Claiming is is done by drawing e-mail address. Has anyone heard of this before?
2006-12-29 04:15:37 · 16 answers · asked by tumbleweed468 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
If you don't know whether it's real or not, I'm guessing that you didn't buy a ticket. If you didn't buy a ticket, what makes you think that you won anything?
In other words, it's a scam.
2006-12-29 04:21:33 · answer #1 · answered by Peter Pumpkin Eater 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Free Lotto has also started a new scam that they claim they are the distributors of the winnings and sellers of legitimate lottery tickets. PowerBall, Mega Millions and State sponsered lotteries. The stupid thing that they don't realize is the State lotteries do not sell blank bulk lottery tickets. PowerBall is an interstate lottery that is not international. When you buy you must fill out the numbers at the time of purchase. Mega Millions has never heard of Free Lotto or their scam. They are claiming a prize of one hundred and nine-five million dollars. There is no TSN number or C V V code it is part of the scam. 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
2006-12-29 08:45:12 · answer #2 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hey dude don't even fall for that crab nobody is going to give you millions you know how many times iv'e gotten millions i would be a billionaire by now thier out to get your money or idenity.If it is'nt bill gates or his partners who are multi billionaires don't even think about it.Even the richest man in the world won't give you a dollar if it's to good to be true than it's to good. GOOD LUCK R.G.
2006-12-29 06:56:03 · answer #3 · answered by rafael garcia 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one is just gonna give you a ton of money. If they ask for your account details or anything of the sort, make sure that you DON'T give it to them! And check any links in your email before you click on them. Often the link will say www.youwin.com, but will take you to www.im-ripping-you-off.com.
2006-12-29 06:25:54 · answer #4 · answered by SilentJay76 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Here is a link to the Powerball lottery's FAQs.
2006-12-30 10:47:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Think about it. If you haven't entered then how could you have won. It is a scam and when you give your details they will wipe out your bank account, credit card etc.
JUST DELETE AND IGNORE.
2006-12-29 04:22:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Scam!
2006-12-29 04:18:03 · answer #7 · answered by Shayna 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2006-12-29 12:32:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
scam
they are trying to either get money from you or get personal info to steal your identity (personal information)
2006-12-29 07:26:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's scam if you listen to them they're going to take your personal information and run away.
2006-12-29 04:29:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋