As know the Nigerian ambassador email that tell you to give over all your personal information and they will sennd you all this money, and not to tell anyone of the transaction.
But this one doesnt right off the bat ask you for your wiring information. And says you were picked from a lotto of emails saying I won all these sterling pounds,.....
Has anyone heard of this before its supposedlyin Liverpool UK somewhere ?
Toyota online sweepstakes promotion, approved by the British Gaming Board
2007-02-02 19:08:16 · 7 answers · asked by jigadee 4 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
This is most likely a scam. If you're really that curious (and killed the cat), then you can try calling Toyota directly. You can try going to a Toyota dealership and ask someone with authority there.
There's no sense in becoming a victim of identity theft.
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2007-02-02 19:17:01 · answer #1 · answered by Wai 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No this is definitely a scam. It has all of the signs of a scam. There is no Toyota sweepstakes promotion or any other form of lottery you can win without buying a ticket. The fact that these people haven't asked for any wiring information yet, is to create an air of trust, hoping that they will appear more honest to begin with and slowly garner your confidence. The requests for personal information and money will come, most likely after you reply to the first email. Do not reply one way or the other.
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.
2007-02-03 06:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by Guerrilla M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
2007-02-03 17:03:27 · answer #3 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got something similar to that in US mail. Searched it and found out someone else had received identical letter. Don't know where it is now, with other junk mail to be thrown away I guess.
2007-02-03 03:21:52 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, my mom recieved that email and sent them back her information. They then ask you for shipping costs. It could be real, but why chance it?
2007-02-03 03:13:21 · answer #5 · answered by fleekyone 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
typical scam.dont bother with it.just a big scam
2007-02-03 03:52:25 · answer #6 · answered by pippy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam delete it.
2007-02-03 03:17:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋