More of a precaution as opposed to a question. I just got an e-mail saying I won the UK Lottery. SCAM!!!!!!!

Question

The letter wanted my name and address. Since they "Selected" me and wrote me, wouldn't you think they would know who they selected. Not unlike the one I got from "International Lottery Corporation." They sent a check and tell you that you won a lot, and to wire them about 2/3 of the check they sent for the "Fees and taxes"---then their check will bounce. BE CAREFUL. Free is worth what you pay for it.

Answer 1

that is the biggest scam going right now. according to them i won five times last week alone. whats up with that. i might be dumb but im not stupid. have a great day

Answer 2

There is no International Lottery.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

ok, the 1st time you acquire this, they did no longer particularly have your e mail tackle, yet use a "dictionary assault". this means their script in simple terms sends out a lot of emails to diverse combos of numbers and letters at diverse domain names. sort of like in case you purely initiate calling telephone numbers commencing with one hundred-one hundred-0000 then one hundred-one hundred-0001, and so on. they don't understand what's a valid e mail tackle and what isn't. once you open one or attempt to unsubscribe, you're actually confirming your e mail tackle is a actual, stay e mail tackle. they have particular lists of those, simply by fact they understand they are certain actual. They then sell those lists to different spammers at a top rate. then you definately get greater direct mail! And it would not make any distinction in spite of if it particularly is Hotmail or Yahoo or Gmail or MSN. in case you employ that tackle once you open the junk, that's what they come back. do no longer OPEN e mail FROM somebody you don't understand. this is the 1st rule of e mail.

Answer 4

ScamsBeware.com - Discussion Group

Answer 5

thats an old scam don't answer it at all or send anything ask your local police dept if i'm right or not!