"ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED FROM WORLDWIDE WEBSITES ESPECIALLY YAHOO MAIL THROUGH OUR MICROSOFT COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM " The foregoing is part of the statement from this e-mail stating I have won a large sum of U S dollars. I feel that the mail is just a scam but would not wish to miss out if it is factual. A senior retiree!
2007-02-01 09:44:30 · 10 answers · asked by driver 1 in Local Businesses ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Other - United Kingdom
No this is definitely a scam. It has all of the signs of a scam. There is no Microsoft Lottery (emmulating from the UK or anywhere else) 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.
2007-02-04 20:25:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Microsoft lottery is a scam.. they say you have one the lottery and then try to find out your personal information etc, so don't give any out. However I am english and when i went to america One british pound was two american dollars. So if you did one it would of been $362,500
2016-03-29 00:28:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
IT IS A SCAM!!! I use to manage a check cashing / payday loan store and we saw lots of checks from this type of email. They will send you a stolen check(usually around $3500 to 4000) & want you to cash it. They will tell you to wire most of the $ to them Western Union and that you'll then get your winnings. DO NOT DO THIS! All the emails that say you've won any type of lottery or anything out of Nigria are a scams. Hope you didn't follow thru. Good luck:)
2007-02-01 09:52:46 · answer #3 · answered by nothin 2 do so i'm here 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a scam ,its been going on for months,there have been lots of questions on here about it.
2007-02-01 09:49:27 · answer #4 · answered by Pat R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
just do not click on any site on your pc which advertises lottery. i have had a bad experience of spyware and adware entering into my pc slowing down it with pop ups and hacking of your mail id. go in for other methods of earning than lotteries.
2007-02-01 11:00:49 · answer #5 · answered by gunner652001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is definitely a scam,ignore it.
2007-02-01 09:59:54 · answer #6 · answered by Daisy Roots 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definitely a scam!
2007-02-01 14:29:28 · answer #7 · answered by madoni MU 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
scam
2007-02-01 09:56:44 · answer #8 · answered by lowflyer1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Microsoft was in the lottery business, don't you think it would be on the news? Think!!!!!!!
2007-02-01 10:45:51 · answer #9 · answered by newyorkgal71 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no such thing.its a scam.
2007-02-01 09:53:34 · answer #10 · answered by peter o 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋