A new scam or an old one?

Question

Dear Winner
Your e-mail address was attached to the following winning numbers:2, 3, 17, 22, 40, 42 - 14 By our computer draw system, You have therefore been approved for a pay out of £2,543,170 (G.B.P)

For verification please fill the form below and forward it to our

Name: MRS SUSAN THOMAS
Email: [e-mail]
Phone::[phone]
You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your
winnings:-http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/information.do?info=unclaimedprizes

NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY/STATE:
TEL/FAX:
HOME TEL:
EMAIL ADDRESS:
ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
MARITAL STATUS:
DATE OF BIRTH:

Yours faithfully,
Darryn Clarke(Mrs)
Online coordinator

Answer 1

after you reply from this email you'll most likely going to receive a response that require for your visa card number or somethin, you'll know it's a big lie, besides it they got you email add, they'll sell it to people, then you're on the mailing list, just expect bunch of ads crap you'll receive in a day.

Answer 2

I have got countless emails such as this and they are all variations of an age old scam! TThese are all variants of the same age old scam. There is no Overseas Lottery International, 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!

I hope this is helpful, because I could sure use a best answer! I would appreciate it!

Answer 3

This has "scam" written all over it. If you were not in Great Britain and did not buy a ticket, you cannot possibly be a winner.

Further, how do these people know your email address? If they know who you are, why not call or write to you?

Answer 4

I am not sure if it is old or new, but it is certainly a scam. If it sounds too good to be true...

Answer 5

Its an old scam, www.snoops.com