i got an email from "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD would it be a scam, especially when i never entered anything

Question

i just think it is strange that i won all this money, and never entered any lotteries other than the ones here in canada

Answer 1

Yes it is a scam! Anything like that is. Delete it :)


If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. And never give your details out to anyone who asks for them by e-mail.

Answer 2

There is no UK National Lottery or any other lottery that you can win without buying a ticket. There are many variants of this scheme including the imaginary Yahoo, MSN, or Windows Live lotteries. These are simply attention grabbing tags to bait people into sending money to complete strangers. In reality, these are all nigeria scams. 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.

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.

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

The UK national lottery pays out in £'s,so the one you have is a scam.

Answer 5

Well you could not have won, because I won it, sorry sport but I must have had the same email.

Note as a tip the UK national lottery would
1 - know your name
2 - know you don't live in the UK
3 - have an appropriate email addr (eg uklotteries.co)
4 - don't email you they use the regular mail.

Answer 6

I think you should be careful and ask a lot of question.Don't give any of your information to them like ss# and bank info...a few weeks I was called and told that I old money which I know I don't b/c I always pay my bills and the women kept saying that I did,that I use my VISA to pay with it before so I asked her what VISA did I have and the women won't tell me so I called my VISA provider and they told me NOT to send in the statement because the women wanted my statement "to see that I had never made payments to them" well the women even said I was going to jail and I have NEVER been in trouble before I was scared but since I never made any payment to them before and I called my Credit card provider I just didn't pay no mind to the women they haven't call ever again.................so you have to ask question.........good luck and be careful

Answer 7

definetly a scam!!! I get them every day, and yesterday I got one from the same place and they called it national coca cola in the UK. do not send them any info!!!

Answer 8

It is absolutely--no doubt about it; a SPAM .Do not ever give out any personal or finical information to these type of e-mails.report it and delete as spam.

Answer 9

Yes its a big fat SCAM! Report it and delete it!

Answer 10

no, you definately won a contest you never entered. you should definately do exactly as the email says.

and also forward it on to everyone you know.