What's up with this National Lottery of England. Have recieved several emails from them saying I'd won?????

Question

Franklin [e-mail] is his email

Answer 1

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 2

That is a scam e-mail. If you respond to it, they will ask for your checking account number and routing number. They will tell you it is to deposit your funds; in fact, they now have all of the information they need to drain your bank account dry.

If you do not remember ever entering a lottery, then you did not win anything. Don't fall for this. Mark the messege as spam and delete it.

If you did give out that information, call your bank right now.

Answer 3

And you haven't bought a ticket? It's one of many internet scams going around, along with someone smuggling money out of a country or you are an heir to a forture from a relative you don't know you had. Most of these will ask for "fees" for sending you your winnings, which you will never see.

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Answer 4

It's a scam.

Answer 5

LUCKY YOU!!!!!!

SPAM!
Don't open it, or read it!
You have, Darn, they now know you exist, and will send more spam mail!

Answer 6

and you actually beleive it ????????????

if you do I have few acre of swamp land to sell you too.....