receving me message iam one of five tops winners but i can not belive that isit really lottery?
2007-02-19 10:05:30 · 7 answers · asked by kamal m 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
This is a phishing letter. If you DO put your e-gold, PayPal, or ANY other personal information in the web site link they gave, your account will be hacked and your money will be stolen.
It would be nice if it were true, but Yahoo! doesn't give members random cash prizes or run any sort of lottery. It is impossible to win a lottery if you did not buy a ticket. And, there is no such thing as a lottery of email addresses. Sorry :-)
2007-02-20 01:31:09 · answer #1 · answered by Matti 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
2007-02-19 12:51:19 · answer #2 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Yahoo email lottery has always been a scam. All the con men who sent this to you want is personal information or money. There is no pot of gold at the end of this spam trail.
2007-02-19 10:14:31 · answer #3 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
particular, that's a pretend. that is one in each of hundreds floating around. i can not assist you to recognize the way many i've got won over the previous few months. They even had the nerve to bypass themselves off as Coca-Cola, yet I knew it wasn't actual from the way the information superhighway website became into spelled in the message. the appropriate ingredient to do is save on with the main undemanding rule of thumb of e mail: in case you do no longer know who that is from, delete it.
2016-11-23 19:26:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen to Benny above. It's a lie. Report it to Yahoo.
2007-02-19 10:13:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't believe it.....it's spam. You didn't win anything........
2007-02-19 10:09:47 · answer #6 · answered by cajunrescuemedic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋