This is part of the text of the Lottory:
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five hundred
thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings(£500,000.00) for the month of
March 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY
INC & WINDOWS LIVE.
YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of
the
people that are active online
2007-03-18 10:21:08 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Whatever you do, DONT SEND THEM, anything, with your account number, or social security or anything on it!!! Its a VERY EXPENSIVE SCAM!!! My mom's step mom did it, and they took her for thousand's of dollars!! It was the same thing, you wrote on here, too!!! I got one, and that's when my mother begged me not to fall for this, that her step mom had been scammed out of thousand's of dollars!! I mean think about it, Did you actually play the lottery, at all? If you didn't then how can you possibly win anything? Its a huge scam, and there taking thousands of people's money, with this whole Lottery NONSENSE!!! I'm sorry that it isn't a ligitimate Lottery, and that this all sounds so disapointing to you to hear me saying this!! But better to hear its not real than to find out to late that they took you for thousands, or put you in total complete debt, you know.....In reality, I am not the barrer, of "Bad News" but of Good News, so long as you didn't already fall for it, hun!!! Dont respond PLEASE!!! They will get you for all you have, if you do!!! Be very very, very careful with these types of email's and so on!!! Smile!!!
2007-03-18 10:30:43 · answer #1 · answered by Hmg♥Brd 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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!
2007-03-20 02:14:08 · answer #2 · answered by Guerrilla M 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
See my report....Remote Control
2007-03-18 17:48:00 · answer #3 · answered by Wabbit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋