i supposible won somw lottery there for 500.000 i think its a scam but its good if it is theyve sent me some e

Question

its from lbadan id like to check it out its from a lawyer they say id like to check to see whats up im not sure how though

Answer 1

It is probably a scam. If you don't remember entering a contest, it is a scam.

Answer 2

The reason scams like this are always around is because people like you keep falling for them.

Did you actually buy a ticket for this lottery, of course you didn't, so obviously it's a scam.

I think you should look into a course or website with information on the basic common sense you need to use when using the internet and e-mail so you can help protect yourself from falling victim to these many, many scams.

Answer 3

Don't fall for one of the biggest scams ever to hit the United States. This type of scam has been going on for years from all over Africa and the middle east....

If you continue to communicate with these people, you will be out a HUGE amount of money which you cannot recover.

Read this:

www.fraudwatchinternational.com/lottery

Answer 4

Of course it's a scam... they often say they're lawyers. How many lawyers do you know who deal in lotteries? How many people win lotteries they never entered?

It's a scam called variously Advanced Fee Fraud, Nigerian Advanced Fee Fraud or 419 Scam. The Nigerian Scams are known as such because the type of fraud that they attempt originated in Nigeria. Before the days of email the same type of fraud was attempted by post, so they are not new by any means! They are also known as "419 scams" after Section 419 of the Nigerian Penal Code which makes this type of scam illegal in that country.

Basically they tell you some hard luck story or tell you that you won a lottery and say they have millions of dollars just waiting for you to collect
.
Then they report various obstacles that they need you (and your cash) to help them overcome. The idea is to slowly bleed you dry with promises that just one more bribe to a customs official or whatever and the money will be on its way to you. There is no money (or if there is then it's fake).

There are basically three things that can be done with a "419" email, depending on how much time and effort you are prepared to spend:-

1. The simplest of all - DELETE it. Never reply, even to say "ha ha I know you're trying to scam me" This just confirms that you have a functioning email address and the scammer will then try to sell it on to someone else - so what you'll get is more 419 emails!

2. If the email comes from an email provider that you recognise and trust, like Yahoo, Hotmail, Netscape etc then forward the message headers to the email provider with a note of the complaint. [The message source maybe faked but often a contact email address is quoted in the message the scammer actually writes to you.]
To do this on Outlook Express:-
Right click the message and select Properties
Click on the Details tab
Click on Message Source
Right click the mass of code you see and click Select All to highlight the entire message
Right click again and click Copy
Paste into your message to Yahoo, Hotmail or whoever

The address to email this to is "abuse@(the email provider) eg. [e-mail]

I have a standard message in my autosignature to save time, which reads:-

"Dear Sirs,
We have today received the message, forwarded below, which appears to be from one of your users, namely [here I quote the email address of the scammer]

We believe that this message is an attempted West African Advanced Fee
Fraud, also known as a "419 Fraud". See London Metropolitan Police Fraud Unit website at:-
http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm
for further details.

We trust that you will take appropriate action against such abuse of your terms and conditions of use.

For your information, the message source code is provided below:-
******************************...

[I paste the message source in here]

******************************...

Sincerely "

Yahoo in particular is very good at deleting these scammer's email addresses so they don't get any replies and can't work their scam on unsuspecting victims

3. The third thing you can do is for experts only - but it is very amusing... play the scammer along and make him waste his time and money on you. WARNING: Don't try this unless you are confident that you know what you are doing. These guys are ruthless criminals and are likely to get VERY annoyed with you.

Visit this site for loads of advice (and some very amusing tales on how the scammers have been themselves scammed):-

http://www.419eater.com/index.htm

But whatever you do, don't fall for it and don't let any of your friends or relatives fall for it either. The mere fact that these scams are still being attempted means that SOME people must be being fooled otherwise the scammers wouldn't be bothering to send out their nasty little emails

Answer 5

It's a scam. Anytime you get mail from Africa saying you won something or asking you to send money or collect money for someone, it's a scam!

Answer 6

They are usually scams., so what I would do is contact them and tell them to send you all the money up front and wait for it to clear, and once it clears, move the money to a different account, and then send them their dues. I bet they won't, and this will tell you its a scam...????

Answer 7

It's called phishing. They send you official looking stuff claiming you won something, or inherited something, all in the hopes of you sending personal information. My recomendation, block the adress and forget about it. It is one of the major ways identity thiefs work.

Answer 8

Believe its a SCAM, always got it in emails and mails.

Answer 9

did they send you a check for 4,000 dollars and tell you to cash it and send it to them? if so that happend to us the bank cashed it and then days latter returned it to us leaving are acct. $4000 over drawn.dont do it you dont get nothing for free. they told us to send them back that 4000 for the prossasing fee than we would get the $98,000 DON'T DO IT !

Answer 10

It's a scam. Go to www.snopes.com and type in the details, you will figure it out.