Hello. My mother and I recently recieved a very phony-looking and suspicious email from a South African coorporation. They said we'd won 1,000,000 dollars, USD, and that we could fly out to pick it up or give info. it came with lots of numbers, ID's, and it seemed instantly fake and scammy to me, but I want to be sure.
2007-02-01 10:35:41 · 6 answers · asked by gamer92 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
No this is definitely a scam. This answer should serve as a warning to anyone being contacted by the Nigeria scammers. It has all of the signs of a scam. 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 18:40:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will never win a lottery that you didn't play. If neither of you have BEEN to south africa, its a safe assumption that you couldnt POSSIBLY have won a lottery from there (even tho i am sure they claim its a international deal)
2007-02-01 14:25:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds very phony to me. Ignore it, and take it or send it to the Better Business Bureau. They investigate these type of things.
2007-02-01 10:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by idaho_native57 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This scam has been around for 10 years or better. Do not fall for it.
2007-02-01 12:59:16 · answer #4 · answered by what the heck? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out snopes.com. If it's fake, they'll know it. If they don't know, they'll do the research to find out.
2007-02-01 10:56:42 · answer #5 · answered by happybirthday 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this a question?
2016-05-24 03:15:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋