Thunder ball lottery.?

Question

E-mail: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone].
[phone]

these pepole are telling me that i won a lottery of 2,50,000 pounds

they are also asking money as other expense to transfer money in my account.

i think they are fraud but i need some information regarding there authencity, if u can provide.

thank you.

Answer 1

fraud all european base lotteries are fake, i recieve a mail from some lottery co. in Netherland.

East India Co.

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Answer 2

This is a Nigeria scam. Yahoo/MSN, U.K. and Australian lotteries, football lotteries from the same counties, Global-Link, World Poverty, Microsoft, Free Lotto, which now seems to have it's own people answering gambling questions on this site claiming they have won which is a total lie, and hundreds more. I am a retired Police Officer that has years of experience investigating Internet scams and frauds. This is an old one. The common link to them getting your email is on line surveys. Yahoo does not give it's stock holders money away nor does it give it's email subscribers address's to lotteries. The only way to win in a lottery is to buy a ticket, if you didn't you could not possibly win. Here is the website of the 17 nation law enforcement task force that investigates cross border Internet crime. You may file a complaint there. www.econsumer.gov. Also go to www.ripoffreport.com and browse complaints and you will find many having the same doubts as yourself about these scams. Below is a typical scam and how they work it. They just go under a thousand different names. They are asking you to send a prepayment to collect your winnings and they want you to send it by a money wire service. Lotteries do not just pick your name out of thin air, and just so happen to have your email also. No Internet service provider gives their email list out to lotteries. If you did not pay to play you could not possibly win.

recieved letter of winning $65000.00 Pacific Player International lotteries,please contact claims agent miss linda strong at 204-951-7582. Second letter came with a check for the amount of $2,470.00 To deposited in my bank account for processing fee,a week later check cleared my bank. I contacted my claims agent over the phone she advise me to wire the balance of $2,341.00 to a Mr Edward Culwell in New York,New York.I called miss linda strong to advise her of the western union confirmation number,to date can not get in touch with linda strong just her voice mail, I know now that it was all a RIP-OFF and now Iam in the hole with $2,470.00 with my bank.... Please send HELP... THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Answer 3

Scam City!!!

Any time you are asked for money up front before you can receive money a red flag should go up.

Real Lotteries take any expenses and taxes off of the top before you get you winnings. They do not ask you for money.

Beware of this, and do not give them any personal info.
Do not give out your bank account numbers and especially do not give out personal ID#'s like a Social Security # (that's what we use in the US).
Once they have your account # your money is at risk.

Answer 4

If they were genuine they wouldnt be operating fro a yahoo email account. I have had the exact same thing from someone with a pipex email account. Do not give them any money, they are fraudulent. They were even mentioned on watchdog a few weeks ago

Answer 5

For the love of God, throw all correspondence in the fire. You have won nothing. These tricksters are preying on people some of whom are gullible enough to fall for this scam. I dont believe for one moment , you fall into this category, and you were wise in reporting this on Qs&As. Other people take note. There are no freebies out there.

Answer 6

Its a scam no doubt about it.

Answer 7

its a scam

Answer 8

go for it ,
what have you got to lose,,,,