2007-02-09 07:35:46 · 7 answers · asked by lazarmatthew 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
If you didn't ask them in the first place, it's a scam. Let me guess, they want your account number to deposit it into?
2007-02-09 07:43:59 · answer #1 · answered by au197_0 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a multi-state Powerball Lottery in the US, but they pay in CASH. Plus if you didn't buy a ticket you CAN NOT WIN! If u give them any info at all, then u r setting yourself up, and saying, "OK Identity thieves, come and get me; here I am!!" There are no legitimate online lotteries/sweepstakes/contests that email you and tell u that u have won millions of dollars, and you have never entered that specific lottery, have never bought a ticket and have never given your email address to or done business with them or their alleged bank! Save yourself lots of trouble, money and embarrassment-report them to abuse@yahoo.com. Yahoo won't tell u the outcome, but I have forwarded a couple emails to them and I did get a response (The Nigerian scams & another one), & never got another similar email.
2007-02-09 15:18:27 · answer #2 · answered by hotpurple5 1 · 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
2007-02-09 12:09:32 · answer #3 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've won alot of lotteries that I mysteriously never bought a single ticket for. Plus, apparently alot of people who's relatives have died want to leave me money....
How lucky am I?? :))))
2007-02-09 07:50:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've won about a dozen lotteries from various countries and am still poor.however i never responded to them.you think i should?nah.itsa scam
2007-02-09 07:45:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure. they try to win your account. spam ignore them
2007-02-09 07:42:48 · answer #6 · answered by Musharaf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont believe them.that's all
2007-02-09 12:48:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋