i want to know that the site australia e-mail lottery inc is true or fraud.?

Question

Dear sir,
I recieve a massege from AUSTRALIA E-MAIL LOTTERY INC that is
AUSTRALIA E-MAIL LOTTERY INC.

Date 04/01/2007

Ref: 475061725
Batch: 7056490902/188
Winning No: GB8701/LPRC
CONGRATULATIONS
Australian Lottery Bonanza


Dear Sir/Madam
The Lucky Winner

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 4th of January,2007 from the Australian International Annual Lottery programme. Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses.Your name was attached to ticket number; 47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You here by have been approved a lump sum pay of US$250,000.00 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia,United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European representative office in Madrid, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$250,000.00 will be released to you from our regional branch office in Spain. For security reasons,we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note,
All winnings are to be claimed by end of Febuary 2007; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity .Congratulations once again on your wining.

PLEASE, CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT
NAME:BAR. CARL ROY @


I want to know that this is true or fraud.please tell me.
thanking you.
sandeep sharma

Answer 1

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 2

Did you buy a ticket for it? If you didn't, then you didn't win. Plain and simple. Companies don't exist for the purpose of giving away free money to random people on the internet.

I particularly like:
"Your name was attached to ticket number"
and they address you as:
"Dear Sir/Madam
The Lucky Winner"

And:
"This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base."
I can just picture the executives:
"We aren't viewed as socially responsible. We could improve environmental controls or eliminate sweatshop labor. Wait, I know! Let's sponsor a lottery!"