2007-02-10 00:15:47 · 6 answers · asked by gracejmt 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
If you didn't buy a ticket, you haven't won anything. Players have asked questions on here about Yahoo Lotteries, too. The answer is the same for all of them - no ticket means no winnings. Don't send your name, address or bank details off, or you'll be in trouble.
2007-02-10 00:24:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There isn't a Irish Lottery, UK lottery, MSN or Yahoo online lottery, or any kind of lottery that you can win without buying a ticket. 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. There is no prize to win, and these names are merely aliases used by those who are attempting to fleece you of your money. You cannot win any lottery without buying a ticket.
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. In short, these lotteries are frauds you should avoid at all costs, buddy.
If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud.
2007-02-10 19:53:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a scam by mail offering Irish residents investments on the UK lottery from an outfit in Amsterdam. UK Lotto is only available to UK residents - I tried entering with National Lottery and was refused.So even in the unlikely event that you won - you wouldn't get paid.
2007-02-10 20:42:37 · answer #3 · answered by Keith J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you didn't buy a ticket for it, there's no way it's real. It's a scam. Businesses don't exist for the purpose of sending people free money over the internet.
The reason these scams are so prevalent is because they're extremely easy to run. You can send out a ton of e-mails claiming that the recipient won, and you hope to get one person to respond and give identity/credit information in order to claim their "prize." You can then use the information to obtain lots of money, or sell it to someone else and they can use it to obtain lots of money.
Trying to reclaim your credit and identity after a scam like this takes lots of time and energy, and it can ruin your life for a while. Don't fall for it.
2007-02-11 05:48:43 · answer #4 · answered by Sanjay M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drink!
2007-02-10 00:18:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes
2007-02-10 17:09:19 · answer #6 · answered by Raver Xeno 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋