2007-02-15 22:03:27 · 5 answers · asked by Ashraful Alam R 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
Me To I won it the other day, but to be quite honest no one wins these lotteries they are all scams trying to get your details and your money ignor them all Yahoo doesnot run a lottery.
2007-02-16 10:45:52 · answer #1 · answered by flossypants 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
2007-02-16 14:38:32 · answer #2 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me too...I've won around 28 lotteries so far and each one has been a scam. If you haven't entered a lottery by purchasing a ticket to do so, then you haven't won anything....what you have received is a 419 scam, take a look here for more information...
http://www.joewein.de/sw/419-euro-afro.htm
2007-02-16 06:13:58 · answer #3 · answered by sarch_uk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
congratulations...i have also won this lottery, and approximately 47 other lotteries and i keep the winning emails in a file called "scam letters." as a mark of my magnanimous generosity i forward every new winning email to all of the other lottery notifiers so that they will get as much as they give...all in the name of karma
2007-02-16 06:09:31 · answer #4 · answered by Susie K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No and you know it's not attention seeker as if anyone would respond to an email like that. Ho well go to go and pack ive just won the lottery!!!!
2007-02-16 06:14:45 · answer #5 · answered by mrhoppy22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋