is this email is true?

Question

E.A.A.S Lottery Headquarters,
Euro - Afro Asia Sweepstakes Lottery Inc.
Customer Service, 580 N.Tenth Street,
Sacramento, CA 85914,
Telephone : [phone].
An Affiliate of Charity International.
Arena Complex Km 18 Route de Rufisque,
I.P.P Award Department,
Amsterdam Holland.


Dear Sir / Madam,


We happily announce to you the draw of 2006 Euro-Afro Asia Sweepstakes Lottery International Program held on Monday 5th of February, 2007 in Amsterdam Holland.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 0000000with serial number: 000000, and draw lucky number: 00000000which subsequently won you lottery in the 2nd category of file number:00000000. Batch Number: 00000 , Reference Number: 00000000, You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$250,000.00 ( Two hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) in Cheque.


All participants in this lottery program were selected randomly through a computer ballot system, d

Answer 1

Don't even think of answering this, A friend got scammed with this and lost $6000.-- Dollars, they just want to get hold of your bank account number .

Answer 2

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 3

This is phishing. Someone wants your personal information. Don't even click on any links. You and I both know that you don't win a lottery unless you buy a ticket, and you have to claim your prize--they don't email you. The fact that it's international should tell you that they could never find the bad guys after they have robbed you blind. All those numbers are there to make it sound official and authentic. However, the legally accepted abbreviation for the US currency is USD not US$. So move on.

Answer 4

I seriously doubt it. If you try to claim it, they'd probably immediately ask for a few hundred, and then if you fell for that, a few hundred more, and probably the money would end up in Nigeria.

Answer 5

No. my girlfriends father got an email like that a few months ago. they want you to send them some money to "retain a lawyer" for this. all they want is the "retainer" money. Don't give them your info.

Answer 6

Of course its a scam

Answer 7

Nope.

Answer 8

Yes it is real, I won $7,500 in it

Answer 9

SCAM!

Answer 10

nope a scam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! keep away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!