2007-01-30 06:38:06 · 13 answers · asked by hoosh_2000 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
100% pure bogus.
Did you buy a ticket? No.
How would have they picked you as a winner and know your email address?
If you want to check it, create yousrself a new identity, say mister Guil Libble, and open an account under that name in a free email system of your choice, like hotmail, and reply as if you received that email. And guess what? Guil Libble is the winner! What are the odds?
And they will ask you to send money to clear out your winnings (which seemingly that cannot take for the winning amount, as odd as it may sound) which of course is only a way to scam you of your moeny. You can actually have some fun pretending that Mr. Guil Libble is a bristish citizen awho can go and pick up the winning in person, and see them come up with imaginative reasons why you must send money and no go there in person.
Check out the "419 eater" site for more interesting facts about scammers (or ideas on how to fight back)
2007-01-30 06:51:09 · answer #1 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any time you get an email that appears "too good to be true", take the main pieces of information from it and put them into a search engine like Google with the word Hoax? after them
You will get every listing of every hoax email that falls under that category.
This also works for all the other weird stuff you get about kidnapped people, Bill Gates giving away millions, etc.
And anyway, the British Lottery told ME that I was the winner...
(me and 5,786,597,657 other people)
2007-01-30 06:48:33 · answer #2 · answered by Mimi Di 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not reply. It's a scam. I've seen this question on here before, and all of the answers said it is a scam. Emails such as that are how people get your information. And, if you haven't played the lottery, then you can't win the lottery.
2007-01-30 06:46:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maximum possibly this may well be a rip-off, a phishing workout to get your financial employer info, as a manner to exploit your accound dry. first did you enter the lottery, from the form you're asking i will assure you probably did no longer enter this lottery which i'm helpful is a rip-off. in case you haven't any longer paid a value to be entered right into a draw and have not given out your email address to a lottery business enterprise how are you able to assume to win? you won't be able to win in case you in no way entered. so basically assign that to the trash can and forget approximately approximately it! in case you have been asked for funds and or have supply any financial employer info flow on your financial employer and tell them and teach copies of all correspondence (emails) which you have. they might desire to have the skill to flow your account and any status orders etc to a clean account huge variety and then hint the scammers to get any money decrease back that could have already been taken illegally out of your account. good success!
2016-11-01 21:51:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i replied to one once. yeah they wanted money from me to receive my "check" so i checked into the lotto retailers website and found that it was a scam. i have since received many more all of which were deleted. you can check to know for sure by going to the website of the lotto company as most are real lotto's and look in the site map and you will find the scams portion. there you will find what to look for and you will also be able to report it.
2007-01-30 06:49:59 · answer #5 · answered by airbguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have been receiving many of the same e-mails. if you notice, there are many words not spelled correctly. this is the first indication. next, they tell you that your e-mail and some subsequent drawing led them to you. if this is so, why do they need all of your info? if you do it, they will bilk you out of your life savings. steer clear of this one. there are about five others out there right now too. one telling you to send your account info so that they can pay people through you. if you are gullible to this, we need money to drill for oil in downtown new york! send an initial investment- laugh out loud!!!!
2007-01-30 07:03:57 · answer #6 · answered by d. w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all if you receivedit in the mail, ALL foreign lotteries are
illegal in the US. every one I've heard of have been scams.
When in doubt, take it to your local Postmaster complete
with the envelope that it arrived in.
2007-01-30 06:46:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!!! you're getting spammed, chances are they want you to fill out a million surveys and get your emaill addy so they can spam you more, or they want you to invest in their 'promotional' items, which would cost you around as much as you would be winning (if there is even something to win). i wouldn't even open the message just delete it and mark it as spam
2007-01-30 06:46:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's not how it works. You have to tell them you won. You also have to pay to play to win.
2007-01-30 06:46:39 · answer #9 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a scam. Delete it or report it as spam.
2007-01-30 06:47:11 · answer #10 · answered by Ria 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋