UK National Lottery & Irish National Lottery sending email informing I got first prize in email draw. But could not find my email address in recipient column. They asked me to fill up the form attached with GBP750 for opening account for me to transfer fund. Is this fake or true?
2007-03-15 17:55:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
take a look at this answer:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=An_J_cKe4UW9GqSlI7xVnSwjzKIX?qid=20070312230548AAmpXSw
and star it so you can read it every time you receive scam and spam emails.
2007-03-15 21:43:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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!
2007-03-17 19:15:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fake, fake fake fake fake... Follow this common rule when dealing with email.... Everything is a fraud... Really don't provide them with any information that is unless you want your bank accounts to be wiped out...
2007-03-15 18:02:06 · answer #3 · answered by 7S282 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i come across it actual astounding that maximum of people actual think of an digital mail telling them they have won earnings some thing they by no ability even entered nor heard of might desire to be authentic!!!! next they are going to be believing the digital mail asserting the stable Fairy of economic Freedom has magically picked their digital mail address from the Akashic archives and is waiting to deliver them a fortune. provide me a wreck!!!!
2016-10-18 12:22:08 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just give me the money, no lottery asks for money straight up.
just search the web for lottery scams, 411 scams
2007-03-15 18:02:05 · answer #5 · answered by Bilby 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
scam, recieved them all the time, also those letters saying that you inherit millions of $, lottery fron ny, europe, australia, & letters telling sob stories asking for donations,... etc...all asking you to keep them confidential, do not reveal the details to other ppl,
2007-03-15 18:05:01 · answer #6 · answered by Dreamweaver 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fake
2007-03-15 18:02:07 · answer #7 · answered by defragmentedbrain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋