I've recieved an e-mail that is about the UK lottery which came to my second mail address.Is it real???

Question

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England



WINNING NOTIFICATION

The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on the saturday 10th of March 2007. Your mail account have been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of One Million Great Britain pounds £1000,000 pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file REF NO.REF:UK/9420X2/68.

This is from total prize money of GBP 5,000,000.00 shared among the FIVE (5) international winners in this category.All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn from over 100,000 names database, union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online.

This promotion is this year\\\'s United Kingdom National Lottery monthly bonanza. All winning must be claimed not later than 14 working days from this notification. After this time all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed.

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Name:Mr.Luis Santiago
E-mail: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]

Answer 1

Fraudulent (Scam) Emails – what to do first

Lottery scam (fraudulent) emails are increasing at an alarming rate.

Scam emails try to persuade the email receiver to submit personal information or to part with money as an up front payment in order to release a winning lottery prize.

As a general rule, if you have not purchased a ticket for the UK National Lottery, you won’t have won a prize, and you should treat the email with absolute caution.

The following points are some things to look for in order to identify a fraudulent email:

* If the email says ‘Winning Notification’ or ‘Lottery Sweep Stake’ in the text, the email you’ve received is not from UK National Lottery;
* We don’t tell players how much they've won in an email; and
* We don’t ask for any Player information like name, address or bank details on an email.

There is no need to contact us if you have received a lottery related scam (fraudulent) email.

As we are constantly looking to improve our communication with our players, we have now changed all our email addresses to the following:

* admin@national—lottery.co.uk
* player@national—lottery.co.uk
* play@national—lottery.co.uk
* help@national—lottery.co.uk
* [e-mail]—lottery.co.uk

We will now use only these addresses to send you all important communication such as purchase confirmations and rollover alerts.

Answer 2

This is a scam. Delete it without answering but print a copy first and send it to

If you would like to contact The National Lottery by post, please use this address:

The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL


Registration details
Camelot Group plc
Registered office: Tolpits Lane, Watford, Herts WD18 9RN
Registered in England and Wales No. 2822203

The U K National Lottery does not distribute prizes in this way. To participate you have to buy a ticket at an approved outlet. It has no connection with the 'European Union Treasury' (whatever that is). All unclaimed prizes added to the 'Good Causes' fund and distributed to charitable causes.

Answer 3

It is a 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 4

Unless you specifically remember entering this lottery, mark it as "Spam". I have received many of these so-called winnings of lotteries from the UK, as well as somebody from Nigeria who wants you to help get a relative out of slavery, or even allegedly helping process monies for businesses that does not currently have any market in the nation that you are in. ALL OF THESE ARE SCAMS!!!! They are designed to swindle you out of your money, your identity or both.

Answer 5

No. It's not real.
Did you enter the UK Lottery? How would they have your email?
It's spam, and an attempt to get you to give them your bank information. Delete it.

Answer 6

Call the phone number, and look for spelling errors in the letter. Sounds real to me! You're rich!

Answer 7

no it is more then likely a scam
but heres how to have fum with them
call that number repeatedly and yell ur brains out at them
or anyother way u want

Answer 8

Hey, I won that lottery myself. In fact I win one about everyday. I have gotten that one before myself.

SPAM SPAM SPAM

How can you win when you never entered????????

Answer 9

Delete it - we get thousands of these. Don't reply to them, don't hand over any payment and don't give them any personal information. Delete and forget.

Answer 10

I didn't read it, send me some money then I'll waste my time and I'll let you know. This is for real.


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