can i win from my e_mail without buying a ticket.i had receivean e_mail from uk national lottery tell me that i won aprize and my e_mail adressattached to ticket number...and contact our claims manager he wrote his name .e_mail telphone .and whine i send an e_mail to him the internet tald me that the e_mail that you contact is wrong tell me what i do and haw i send my claims for them and is it true that i can win aprize without buying ticket?
2007-02-12 06:11:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
You can't win a prize without buying a ticket. The people who sent you the email just want to trick you into giving them some of your own money.
DO NOT reply
DO NOT click on any links
DO NOT call any telephone number they give you
DO NOT give them any passwords or bank details
DO delete the email.
I am sorry but you have not won anything.
2007-02-12 06:43:01 · answer #1 · answered by 'H' 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is a scam. Delete it without answering but print a copy first and send it to If you would like to contact The National Lottery by post, please use this address: The National Lottery PO Box 1010 Liverpool L70 1NL Registration details Camelot Group plc Registered office: Tolpits Lane, Watford, Herts WD18 9RN Registered in England and Wales No. 2822203 The U K National Lottery does not distribute prizes in this way. To participate you have to buy a ticket at an approved outlet. It has no connection with the 'European Union Treasury' (whatever that is). All unclaimed prizes added to the 'Good Causes' fund and distributed to charitable causes.
2016-05-24 01:24:23 · answer #2 · answered by Victoria 4 · 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
2007-02-12 09:01:19 · answer #3 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You don't win the lottery using internet.
2007-02-12 06:20:16 · answer #4 · answered by Icarus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did the same thing. It's just a way for phishing sites to get your information so they can send you spam.
2007-02-12 06:44:52 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Smith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have gone through kind of your experience. i received a mail declaring that i won huge amount of money as a winner of California based lottery that was conducted among email-address. the mail hinted me to mail to a given email account. i mailed to that address and got reply. in the mail they said the prize money that i hane won was kept in an account of a south african bank. it was surprising to me as this lottery was USA based.later a man called over my cell phone who said he was speaking from tahat bank and requested me to send $2000 to that bank if i wuld like transfer tha amount to my account . i denid to pay the money and told him to take the money from the prize. then he offered me to send the money through DHL but said not to open the packet of money in front of the delivery man and pay him $1500 . i couldn't believe him anymore and stop mailing him. he mailed me some more times but i didn't respond.
2007-02-12 06:50:36 · answer #6 · answered by Pavel 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they will ask you to send them money or for your bank account number so they can deposit the money. they are just trying to scam you.
2007-02-12 06:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by R L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a scam
2007-02-12 06:15:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋