I think I have received a lottery scam?

Question

I received something like this what should I do, I never did or signed up for any lottery ticket.




EURO MILLIONS
Watford, Head Office and Regional Centre Euro Millions,
Tolpits Lane, Watford, Herts,
WD18 9RN
U.K.


PRIZE AND AWARD NOTIFICATION


We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today of winners of the
MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNINGS PROGRAMS held on Monday 29th
January,2007.Your company or your personal e-mail address, is attached
to Ticket Number 9901-0148-790-691, with serial number 66109-17 drew the
lucky Winning Numbers 990-11-815-37-10-83, and consequently won the
lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £420,000.00
Pounds in cash credited to file REF NO: EML/ 56-TF-8890776, BATCH:
109/91300/EML.This is from total prize money of £10,500,000.00 Pounds
shared among the Twenty five (25) international winners in this
category.

To claim your winning prize, you must first contact

I got this from an email that was sent to me.

Answer 1

No this is definitely a scam. It has all of the signs of a scam. There is no Euro Millions Lottery or any other form of lottery you can win without buying a ticket. There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades. The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy. But this is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question.

If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud.

Answer 2

NO! Throw the check away. If you open an account with this check, cash it out, you are stealing money from the bank where you deposit the funds and therefore are liable for the returned check. Do NOT cash that check, I have been in banking for a decade, and seen many poor souls fall into this trap and lose everything because they cashed those stupid checks. There is nothing you can do, the police are aware of what is going on as it is happening with increasing frequency all over the country. You could however take the check to your bank, if you have an account somewhere and make them aware that these checks are circulating locally. They will, if not already aware of it, put a notice out to their branches to keep their eyes open for this. So you will in a way get one over on the scammers if you prevent just one person from losing their life savings :-)

Answer 3

If there is no money in your bank account right now, it's a scam.

When you win something, you don't have to "contact" anyone to claim it. If they know that much about you, a certified check with good and marketable funds should appear at your door, made payable to you, any second...

Answer 4

of course it's a scam
and you do not think otherwise?
if you can't tell then you are in for a lifetime of getting taken advatange of

Answer 5

SCAM, report it to www.ic3.com the internet fraud complain site. They can tell you or investigate it.

Answer 6

You're right, it's a scam. Just discard & ignore it.

Answer 7

If they ask for ANY money, that means it's a SCAM.

Answer 8

Yep........sounds like a scam to me.

Answer 9

Throw it out, or you'll be sorry!