About lottery department uk. It's real?

Question

Please, I wanna know that lottery department uk. has real? my friend she got mail that a winner from The
online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail
addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated
random computer search from the internet.
Anyone used to get it please tell me it's possible? Thank you so much

Answer 1

Just delete it, it's a scam. Did she buy a lottery ticket? No? Then how did she win?
Forget it.

Answer 2

Look at the questions I have answered on this site in my info. There are so many winners there could not be enough money to pay them all.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

If you don't by a ticket you can not win a prize this lottery like a multitude of others is a SCAM your friend has won NOTHING and be carefull because they ask for your bank details next so as to get thier grubby hands on your money ,take no notice of any of it it's rubbish.

Answer 4

No doubt it then goes on to say that to cover costs you have to send x amount of pounds to claim prize?

Sounds like very old scam, used to be the Canadian lottery scam, been doing the rounds for years.

There's no such thing as a free lunch amigo....

Answer 5

Just one of a myriad of scams mate, delete it and forget it, if your friend responds to this they'll get conned eventually - steer clear.

Answer 6

My wife won to wanted bank account info and cash joke

Answer 7

Its a con steer clear.

Answer 8

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