its using the official lottery logo but tnt delivery want want 500 pound to deliver my cheque and certificate ? is this a scam has anyone heard of this? or had a similar e mail its a yahoo address
2006-12-29 06:53:08 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
big time scam
they never ask for money to deliver money
report it to the authorities before some poor old person gets duped out of their life savings
ever hear of phising
it logo looks real but not only do they scam your money but steal your identity by asking for personal information to "claim" your prize
i do not even open any e-mail from anyone i haven't sent one to or personally know it lets scammers and spammers know it is a live account
i just bounce it back without openings it to prevent viruses and phising
2006-12-29 07:16:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no London International Lotto program. They use many different countries as the lottery host. This is a Nigerian scam. I am a retired Police Officer that has investigated Internet fraud and scams for years and this is a version of a old one. Free Lotto, which now has a new scam going, Australian Lottery, U.K. Lottery, the football lotteries claiming to come from the same countries, Yahoo, Microsoft, Global-Link, Global and World Poverty lotteries are all Nigerians scams. The list is endless. The common thread of them getting your email, in most cases are on line survey companies. The standard lines of these scams is that you must either send your banking information or you must send a prepayment to collect your winnings. They will tell you this prepayment is for taxes or to cover the cost of sending your winnings. The best rule of thumb is that "You gotta pay to play" that's how lotteries work They do not just pick names out of the air and just so happen to have their email address also. One of the characteristics I have found that shows them as scams is that the most of them do not spell multi-syllable words correctly
2006-12-29 08:39:49 · answer #2 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm surprised and worried that people still ask this question.
YES OF COURSE IT'S A SCAM!!!!!!!!
It's called advance fee fraud.
It's often also referred to as a 419 scam. (Most of these scams originated in West Africa - Particularly Nigeria - and 419 is a reference to section 419 of Nigerian law which deals with Advance Fee Fraud).
Basically they sent you an email/letter/phone call telling you that you have won a lot of money...but before you can receive the money you have to send them some money for tax/handling fees/storage fees/admin fees etc...
If you send them some money they will keep asking for more for a variety of fictional and badly spellled reasons. Of course you will never receive the money from the pretend lottery because it doesn't exist.
Easiest thing to do is just delete it, but a lot of people get a new anonymous email address with yahoo or hotmail and reply to them to waste the scammers time and cause them some inconvience..
scam-baiting can be a funny and interesting sport...just imagine the look on your scammers face when you send him to the local Western Union office to collect the money that you haven't sent.
just google "419 scam baiting" and you'll get lots of websites with info on the sport
2006-12-29 07:10:12 · answer #3 · answered by mainwoolly 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Come now you must know it's a scam! You can't win a lottery prize without buying a ticket. Don't open emails of this kind. Delete, delete.
2006-12-29 07:02:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Delete it. It's a scam, pure and simple. If you had genuinely won lottery money, you would have to buy a ticket and check that your numbers had come up and then the onus would be on YOU to claim the prize money.
2006-12-29 07:03:13 · answer #5 · answered by b9721005 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I have heard of it, and got a similar email asking me to contact the courier service to receive my check. If they are asking 500 pounds to deliver your check, it is definitely a scam. What the heck, you can email them saying they can deduct 500 pounds from your winning amount to deliver your check. I emailed them back they can donate this money to some charity as I believe this was just a scam. There is NO FREE MONEY !
2006-12-29 11:55:43 · answer #6 · answered by purplemollies 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its defiantly a scam , Did you do the lottery on line ? well no so how can you win , If anyone asks for money to claim any prize its a scam , they prey on people who want to believe its true . throw the letter away if nobody sent money they would soon go away
2006-12-29 07:13:29 · answer #7 · answered by Black Orchid 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good grief if you give me 500 quid I'll bring you a cheque for the same amount. If you haven't bought a ticket you haven't won. It's a scam.
2006-12-30 01:23:17 · answer #8 · answered by Player 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I won the lotto the same way. Just send them a bank account number along with some other personal information (passwords and a few credit card numbers) and they will deposit the cash right into your account.
2016-03-13 23:22:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything that asks you for money is a scam. these come in all forms from scratchcards where you have to phone to get a code which costs about £9 for the phonecall alone to letters telling you have won a wonderful prize in competitions you havent even entered. you dont get anything for nothing in this world
2006-12-29 07:04:36 · answer #10 · answered by Tammy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋