I got an email from the UK stating I had won a National Lottery and should email them & claim my prize A scam

Question

The address is: Overseas Claims Unit - United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary - Contact Person: Mr. Peter Blair It states there are no fees or payments due. Does anyone know if this is a scam?

Answer 1

There are many Nigerian scams that are showing up nowadays. Please read the following carefully:

Another new popular scam is the lottery 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 2

It scares me you would ever ask this question. That is why I keep getting these stupid emails because people like you are questioning if this is a scam or not. So let me put to you this way. Does Pinocchio have wooden balls? If you can answer that question correctly you will know to delete that email.

Here is one last thing to think about, how can you win the lottery in the United Kingdom when probably have never played once or been to the location. That is why I get paid the big bucks in case your wondering.

Skull

Answer 3

There is only one national lottery in the UK. The only way to win is to buy a ticket and match your numbers. You can play online, but you again have to buy the ticket, and you have to be a resident of the UK to play online.

This email is a common scam. If you give them your personal information they will use it to steal from you.

Answer 4

check out http://scamsbeware.com - consumer resource center. all kinds of scam info there, there's also a forum where u can keep up to date on current and future scams. And if u have any questions just post it in the forum and somebody out there should help u. http://scamsbeware.com/forum Best of all it's FREE 2 join, just register at the top it'll be worth it for u to keep up 2 date on scams/fraud. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

it is a scam, there is a link on the national lottery site to report these to, you can forward the email you received direct to the fraud squad at the metropolitan police and they are investigating these

Answer 6

Funny, I won the same lottery, it's amazing what people will do to get you signed up for something

Answer 7

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