AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY PROGRAMME INC."
i am recived a following message
please inform me its write or fraud
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AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY PROGRAMME INC.
Ref: ***********
Batch: ************
Winning no: *********
Date:18-02-2006
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release
on the 18TH, FEB,2006 from the Australian International
Lottery programme, Which is fully based on an electronic
selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from
various web sites.Your email address was attached to
ticket number; ******************* serial number
7741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows
**********42bonus number 17,which consequently won the
lottery in the second category. You are hereby approved a lump
sum pay of US$450,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS)
in cash. credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash
prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this
2007-02-20 13:57:20 · 13 answers · asked by joy 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
Sorry, it's a scam.
It is impossible to win a lottery if you did not buy a ticket. There is no such thing as a lottery of "e-mail addresses from various web sites". The Australian Lottery is run by Tattersall's, and they've published a press release warning about this sort of lottery scam (link #1 below). I also included a couple general links to information about fake lottery emails.
2007-02-21 00:28:22 · answer #1 · answered by Matti 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it is a scam! There is no YAHOO & MSN Lotteries, Yahoo online dept., UK (United Kingdom) Lottery, Netherlands Lottery, British Lottery, Thunderball Online Lottery in the UK, Australian Lottery, Spanish Lottery, Yahoo Lottery Microsoft Lottery (emmulating from the UK or anywhere else) or any other form of lottery you can win without buying a ticket. While some people might only copy and paste such email to their answer with a brief take on it, I will go into detail because I'm tired of this trash, as several of my friends have lost their a$$es to this scam. This is about as far away from legitimate as anything can get, whether it be a contest, promotion, or whatever.
There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades.
The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. If you even reply, you risk having your email inbox flooded. If you call these people, expect to be harrassed over the phone at all hours of the night! In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings in Nigeria are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy.
By the way, I have kind of become an anti-scam activists due to the fact that I have many friends who have had their identities and life savings stolen from them via these methods.
This is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question.
If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud. You can also read more about this at www.secretservice.gov and www.419eater.com!
If you have lost money you should report it to the U.S. Secret Service at www.secretservice.gov
Now you know the basics of Advance Fee Fraud, a multi-million dollar industry that costs honest people their life savings everyday. Be happy you weren't duped by this scam!
Check out the following sites:
www.419eater.com
http://www.tattersalls.com.au/cms/media/...
http://www.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~wm/wm-lotto...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lottery_sca...
I hope this is helpful, because I could sure use a best answer! I would appreciate it!
2007-02-22 02:59:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All theses email lotteries are scam there is defiantly no Internet lottery in Australia or any where else for that matter just where do you think all this money is coming from for them to just give away at the drop of a hat to people that don't even have a ticket does that not ring any bell for you don't answer them because the next step in being a sucker is sending them money because that is what they will next ask you for so as to release your winnings to you which by the way don't exist.
2007-02-21 14:31:26 · answer #3 · answered by flossypants 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES IT'S A SCAM
For future reference, if it gives you a link, it probably wouldn't hurt to check it out a little. But, if you got it in an email, there's basically a 99% chance it's a scam.
Whenever you're not sure, just google the organization in quotations. I did, and here's what I got: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22australian+international+lotto%22&btnG=Google+Search
The BBB says it's a scam, and no one seems to say it isn't.
2007-02-20 14:07:28 · answer #4 · answered by fishmonger908 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam. They'll ask you for a "small" amount as a deposit. Then, they'll disappear. Email fraud is probably one of the biggest industries in Nigeria.
2016-05-24 00:33:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carefully read the email and ask yourself a few questions:
1. Who are these people?
2. How do you think they got the $450,000 USD?
3. Does it FEEL like a hoax?
If it FEELS like a hoax, 99 time out of 100, it *is* a hoax.
Be careful, don't give out any information, and steer clear of these "lottery winner" emails.
2007-02-20 14:03:06 · answer #6 · answered by dante_cubit_3000 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
big time scam stay away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you did not buy a lotto ticket why even bother reading it? remember if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
2007-02-21 03:28:59 · answer #7 · answered by pay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a scam...hit delete!
2007-02-20 18:23:54 · answer #8 · answered by Jeff B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
big scam
2007-02-20 14:05:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a SCAM.
2007-02-20 14:05:28 · answer #10 · answered by jimponder 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋