I have won alot of lotteries!!!!!! Mostly from the UK. I am having trouble emailing them etc. and I don't know whether to believe them. Some have file etc. that I won't open so I don't get a virus. I could of won, but then??? What would you do??
2007-02-21 06:36:30 · 9 answers · asked by rhonda_seiler 6 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
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
2007-02-22 07:41:21 · answer #1 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
These lotteries sometimes contain viruses, but most often they are scams, specifically called 'advance fee fraud'. The general idea goes like this...
The scammer says you have won a million dollars, and all you need to do is send them $1,500 to pay the withholding tax. Or send them your bank account information, so they can deposit the money. Or fly to the airport so that they can meet you.
When they meet you at the airport, they basically rob you. Maybe it's more of a scam, where they convince you to pay lots of money to them, or maybe it's simply locking you in a hotel room until you give them your credit cards and other stuff.
These can be serious business, particularly in Nigeria, where corruption is high - I know an investment broker who had to convince two of his "million dollar" clients that their e-mail relationship with a Nigerian 'oil dealer' or something similar was a scam. For a time, foreign embassies were getting 2 or 3 scammed people a week, people who had been robbed, including their passports.
Just like all the other ads you get, delete, delete, delete is the best option.
2007-02-21 07:13:49 · answer #2 · answered by Polymath 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look all of these emails are junk mail these people that keep telling you that you have won money are frauds and the lotteries donot exist don't give them any of your personal details or send them any money or they will rip you off big time. delete them and forget them.I bet you never purchased a ticket in any of these lotteries you are suppose to have won did you ???????
2007-02-21 13:46:52 · answer #3 · answered by flossypants 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are all basically in that position, you or I could get killed or suddenly drop dead today, who knows, and £19M is life-changing money not only for him but if invested wisely could secure his family's future for generations. To be honest if this happened to me then I would be happy to be ill knowing that my children will be well cared for when I die. He is also lucky that the shock of winning didn't kill him, because if I won that money I'm sure I would have dropped dead in shock!
2016-05-24 03:20:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's the National Lottery, or whatever the American Version is and you specifically bought a ticket, or entered yourself into a lottery, you may have one...
If you didn't delete them and don't tell them anything, or even reply
2007-02-21 06:45:40 · answer #5 · answered by alexneoguy121212 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's all a scam. They just want someone like you to return contact so that they can cooerce you into sending them your ID#'s, Credit card numbers or ban account #'s. Just delete these emails.
2007-02-21 06:45:04 · answer #6 · answered by Oz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are right not to open them. I get many of them too and wouldn't dare opening them. Like the old cliche goes "if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is".
2007-02-21 06:42:10 · answer #7 · answered by kim_n_orlando 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
AH! Dont open it. If you won for free, most likely it is spam or worse!
2007-02-21 06:44:01 · answer #8 · answered by answr-r 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you buy a lottry ticket? If not you did not win. If they are legal you can check list of winners with goverment.
2007-02-21 06:44:47 · answer #9 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋