Has anyone received a lottery win notice from Arco Wentworth Fin.?

Question

i have been notified I have a 61,000 lottery check waiting for me. After I answered online to a random lottery win out of London, Arco Financial, along with a check for 2990.08, have notified me that I am told to deposit it, once funds clear, & to take my time, even longer than the bank hold) to ensure I am comfortable, & to call & send $2,850, to clear international clearance fees, once they receive money from Western Union, of course they send 140.08 extra (for W.U. fees). Once they receive, I will have $61,100 cashiers check ready for mail, or to be wired into account. Now, I being a skeptical person, & have run into several scams just selling stuff on recycler, so I have to admit that this is unique, they don't ask for fees upfront, other than me washing their money for them, but one number I called, I expressed my concern, yeah right I tell her, she says no, make sure the check clears, take as long as you like, but I must respond by 3/22.

Answer 1

It is a scam! There is no Lottery going on with Arco Wentworth Fin., 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 2

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 3

It is a scam. This how it works: You take their check and deposit it. Then you send them a check for their reimbursement. It will take a few weeks to clear their check. Once you bank finds out it is not real then they will come after you for repaying them. By that time, the person (or company) will have disappeared leaving you in debt. DO BUY IT!

Answer 4

SCAM SCAM SCAM

You didn't enter it, and if you won, why would they use YOUR money to clear a check. It's not unique; you see them reported here every day. Give it to the local police or your bank manager; but SEND THEM NOTHING

Answer 5

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 6

Can you say scam? If you wanna give your money away I.M me and I'll give you my address. Don't be silly please.