I received a email saying I won a lottery to contact [e-mail] is this a leget address?

Question

I was given ref.#'s, Batch #, serial #, lottery# and lucky #'s and won in catagory B. Says Contact Person: 2007 NL Online Lottery Draw Ref# ASL-NL97_5G3 International Claims Dept. Tel. # [phone]. Just want to know if this is a legitmate tel.# and Lottery. Thanks tracmepleaz

Answer 1

highly unlikely, complete scam if you ask me.

Answer 2

Did you enter anything to warrant your winning of this "lottery"? If not then I would not go anywhere near it. They are also probably asking for some sort of handling/administration charge from you as well. If so don't give any information or you might find that you will lose £250k and maybe more as once they have your details they will clone your accounts and strip you barer that the day you were born and leave you so deep in debt you would need to win the lottery just to be able to pay it back. Burn it NOW

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

I get those all the time, when i am surfing the net, and what you should always do is just exit out of it. I know it is VERY tempting to fall into it, especially when they say stuff like, you won the lottery, and other magnificent prizes... But don't do it. (it's a scam)

Answer 5

It's normally a scam. They'll say you won something but once you call to claim the prize then they tell you that you would have to put up some money or follow some conditions that don't make it worth it.

Answer 6

SCAM all the way.

1. Did you enter this??
2. Why would somone be using a free e-mail address?

Don't reply to the e-mail or call the number.

Answer 7

This is a feeble attempt to "phish" you out of personal information. Do not respond to it. You may subject you, and/or your computer to hackers, and theives.

Be careful who you give information to, as it may come back to haunt you.

How many lottery companies do you know of, that are reputible, that contact you, out of the blue, to tell you you won something? You get my point......

Stevo.

Answer 8

this is a con for GODS sake don't give out your personal info stay clear of anything like that OK

Answer 9

i have been getting that type of emails a lot and can not find out who to report them to don`t call the phone# it`s in africa and a toll call , as of today i have 4 of these scam emails and no one to report them to

Answer 10

It's a scam!
"YOU HAVE WON US$1,200,343!" (with your name personalized somewhere in the headline). This is usually followed by a request to send money (US$30 or more) either as "payment tax" or a "processing fee" before you receive your "prize money".

How can you possibly win a prize in a lottery you never even entered in the first place? These kinds of offers are deceptive and worthless. So be warned.

Not only do the opportunists who operate these scams deceive thousands of people and steal money from them under false pretenses, but they tarnish the integrity of the entire lottery industry.

These Notices are Cleverly and Convincingly Written, Certainly Deceptive and Utterly Fraudulent.


AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO SCAM
The AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO scam email shown below claims that the recipient has won money in an international lottery. The email is an attempt to initiate a dialogue with potential victims and subsequently trick them into sending money to the scammers responsible. There is no "AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO" and no prize money.

Example of AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO Scam Email:

Sir/Madam

RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO held on the 23th of November,Your e-mail address attached to ticket number;12457851245212 with serial number 24512-LK235,batch number B142/245874120KYT, lottery reference number 452632 and drew from lucky numbers 58-7-27-46-47-69 which consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of $1,000,000.00 only,payable in cash credited to security credited file numbers;YHT/24586/2354/JPA.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with our fiduciary agent (UK BOND) insured in your name. In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants who take advantage of our name and this programme to reap our winners. We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year (2004) high stakes where you stand a chance of winning up to 12,00,000.00, we hope that with a part of your prize you will participate.

To begin your claim process, please contact our UK paying agent immediately

MR. SAMUEL JONES
HM JONES(credit & finance) UK LTD.
DIRECT:[phone]
PHONE: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
EMAIL: [e-mail]

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 11th NOVEMBER, 2004. After this date, the prize award will be returned to the AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO . Be informed that 5% of your lottery winning belongs to charity organisation. As was stated in the policy of our organisation, no institution/person has right to remove/deduct money out of the total sum won till it gets to the beneficiary.

Please call your agent as soon as you receive this letter and remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all your correspondence with HM JONES Uk

REFERENCE NUMBER: 1072896743AS
BATCH NO: 443/04
Congratulations once again from all our staff Sincerely.

SUSAN DAVIES
LOTTERY COORDINATOR
NATIONWIDE INTER-LOTTO UK
SOUTH PARK BUSINESS CENTRE
310 GREEN LANE, ILFORD,
IG1 1XT, ESSEX.
Phone: [phone]
PLEASE ALL INSTRUCTIONS ARE STRICTLY OBSVERED AND ANY WINNERS BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE SHOULD IGNOR THIS NOTICE AS NOT QUALIFIED FOR THIS CLAIM.


Apart from Lottery and Sweepstakes, there are also other scams circulating by mail and email. One of them is the so-called African "419" scam-named after a relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code.

The scams involve a number of schemes, all designed to dupe victims into shelling out varying amounts of money. The conmen typically send letters through mail, fax, or the internet, claiming to have acquired or inherited large sums of money, sometimes purporting it to be "excess government or bank funds". They seek the victim's help to supply a foreign bank account number to be used to transfer the "funds" out of Africa.

The victim is promised a huge commission in return. These offers are bogus and the victims are often duped into paying large sums in up front payments, purportedly as taxes or fees in order to transfer the funds.

Answer 11

NO! Don't give out any personal info