how do you know e-mail you receive is from legitimate company and one that they say they are in other country

Question

Lottery winnings They sent me 4500 dollers to pay fees and exspences.I drew it out of my bank 2 wks ago and held it every since.trying to confirm it.my bank says its my moneyand they cant take it back. but they want me to wire 3500 of it to pay the fee's on the million I won I cant figure out what kind of a scam would workfrom doing this .I have to wire the money soon cant put them off any longer Help

Answer 1

don't don't don't don't - you will never see it again - it is a TRICK - DON'T do it - Don't do it

Answer 2

There isn't any kind of lottery that you can win without buying a ticket. Do you really think any reputable institution would send anything out with so many misspellings? If this isn't a dead giveaway to you, you might want to avoid using the net all together.

If you have already sent personal information to these people they will steal your identity and any money you send, you have lost forever. If you have been a victim of any Nigerian scam you can report them to the U.S. Secret Service and you can find their website with a simple Yahoo Search. You really shouldn't count on seeing your money ever again though. You won't.

This nonsense 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. Also, any email that uses all-caps is definitely a scam.

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

Answer 3

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 4

This is a scam dont wire them anything go see the police about it are you sure they sent you $4500 now they want $3500 back that doesnot make sense at all if you win a lottery first you must have bought a ticket and secondly you dont have to pay fees to get it .theses people are frauds see the police about it today.

Answer 5

call the local authorities. You are getting scammed. Dont give them anymore money because what they are doing to you is illegal and they will not, themselves call the cops. Offer to give them back the 4500 they sent to you and wash your hands of the situation.

This about it man, you shoudnt have to PAY to get your CASH PRIZE.. i didnt think people actually fell for those things. Seriously, you are getting scammed, and if you signed (electronically or with paper) anything, you can get sued for the rest of the money. Call a lawyer and the cops.

Answer 6

Scam!!!! Don't do it. I get those emails to and just mark them as spam. You can't win a lottery that you did not enter. They just want your money so they can disapear in the night before they send you your money.

Answer 7

Nope u will get arrested for Fraud just call the local authorities 2 see wat it really is