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

This email is a lie.

A lottery scam is a variant of advance fee fraud (also know as a 419 scam). First, you (and thousands of other people) get a spam message stating that you could get millions of dollars -- in this case, because you won the lottery. If you believe the scammer and reply, he will charge you a fee before your winnings can get to you: this may be for having some documents notarized, or to pay the courier who's bringing your check, or to open a bank account, or international taxes, or any number of made-up excuses.

You can tell these are email lotteries are fake because:
(1) You can't win a lottery if you didn't enter (i.e. buy a ticket)
(2) There is no such thing as a lottery of email addresses.
(3) There is no such thing as an "international lottery", and in fact most countries have laws prohibiting their citizens from entering lotteries in other countries.

See the following links for more information about lottery scams in general...

Answer 2

No is not true...this kind of E-mails are designed electronically to clean up your own Bank A/cs, or they will ask you if you respond to mail then a Cerified- Bank Draft of around few thousands of Dollarts to cover taxes-Secuirity and precess and other etc fees before they will issue & mail to you supossly the or Check of your Winnings.... After they will receive your Bank draft and Cash it you will never hear from them again.- This Wire fraud got created in NIGERIA...where you will not have any legal remedies to recover your funds. Another E-mail wire fraud that started and based in NIGERIA is the following: An Individual will E-mail you and he will tell you that he is an Executive of the BANK of AFRICA...FACO, he has under his control unclaimed bank A/cs ...and one of them the owner of such Bank A/C died in an accident, he has no next of kins to claim and collect the money of this dorman A/c...so he or she will ask you to become his partener with 40% commission...he will make you the next of kin...supossly he will mail you forms to fill with your personal details including your bank A/cs .... numbers and other information...so he can transfer the funds to you.. and then he will instruct you how and where to send him his 60% cut..but instead trasfering funds to you... after he will receive the filled by you forms, electonically by the information that you will provide to this individual he will clean up your own Bank A/C - no matter how much you have in...After the crime because your money will end up in NIGERIA ...out of your legal JURISTICTION.....smilling you can say Goodbuy for the money that you lost.- This individuals... each one of them use a lot of Different names, addresses, E-mails...mostly aol, lykos. yahoo and other E-mails that originate in Africa.- Always remember what my father ounce said : If you hear that they give away free apples...go to collect with a small basket.

Answer 3

Humm, I have bridge I wanna sell ya!

Answer 4

This is a known scam.Please ignore it.

Answer 5

scam