Email is from:
MR MARTIN S DAVIES
Tel: +(44) 701-421-9854
Do NOT know how to insert message to send to you.
Would be grateful for advice.
Thanks
2007-03-21 22:28:21 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
if you did not enter the lottery then its a scam if you replied it could either attach cookies to your email or a virus i received an email for something that said i had won and being me i replied i some how got a virus which nearly destroyed my computer luckily my Internet providers found the virus and sorted it for me I'm now careful what i do and don't open anything if i don't know who its from
2007-03-21 22:49:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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!
2007-03-22 19:21:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I received an email on Monday telling me I am now a Millionaire!!! Are they claiming to be from yahoo? the one I received said its from yahoo.inc..It has to be a scam I'm unsure as to where the phone number is to its below and as you can see it is the same code as yours.
Tel: +(44) 701-421-9746
They state that all they need is confirmation of my email address ..hmmm I'm sure they have all this info already, seeing as they sent a mail to my inbox and it didn't go into my spam account. I reckon it has to be a scam my personal opinion is - anything that sounds too good to be true generally is!
2007-03-21 22:38:41 · answer #3 · answered by ♥♥Squirrel ♥♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is scam. Yahoo (Or anyone else for that matter) do not run an email lottery, if they did you could guarantee it would be advertised all over their home page. Check out these links and search answers to see how many people 'win' the exact same lottery every day
http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=630...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lottery_sca...
Do not click on any links, the page you will be taken to will look authentic but is not
Do not send them a 'courier fee' or any other money
Do not hand over any bank details or passwords
Do report spam
Do delete
Remember there is no such thing as a free lunch. You cannot win a lottery if you havenot bought a ticket.
(I've answered this question so many times that I now keep this answer on my desktop and just copy and paste....that should give you a clue!)
2007-03-21 22:37:33 · answer #4 · answered by 'H' 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you enter anything to warrant your winning of this "lottery"? If not then I would not go anywhere near it. They are also probably asking for some sort of handling/administration charge from you as well. If so don't give any information or you might find that you will lose £250k and maybe more as once they have your details they will clone your accounts and strip you barer that the day you were born and leave you so deep in debt you would need to win the lottery just to be able to pay it back.
Burn it NOW
2007-03-21 22:47:15 · answer #5 · answered by Mark M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not a scam. People give strangers millions of dollars and euros and pounds and francs everyday, and thousands more people win sweepstakes they never even entered! It's true! And even more surprising, there are hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away in Nigeria, just waiting for an honest person to help spirit it out of the country via an electronic bank transfer. Wake up! Geeze, surely you can't be so stupid as to acutally believe you won 5 million euros from a sweepstake you never entered, can you?
2016-03-28 23:19:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
SCAM SCAM SCAM unless you have a ticket or scratchcard in your hand (or online National Lottery) you have not won anything. That is probably a premium rate number. Remember that NOBODY EVER gives money away for free.
2007-03-21 22:32:06 · answer #7 · answered by Charlene 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually, these are scams. Also, if you are not in UK, it is obviously a scam because otherwise, they would have written the money in your countries currency. Also, if you didn't even buy a lottery, they're not going to give you money for free!
2007-03-21 22:32:31 · answer #8 · answered by ronzo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!!! All of those are scams. Do not send any info to them. Delete it and move on along with any others you may receive. Hope this helps!!!
2007-03-21 22:33:09 · answer #9 · answered by roritr2005 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
07 numbers tend to be premium rate numbers so it does seem a tad scammy, also 'lottery board' is not the english lottery. did you buy a ticket? i bet you didn't! report it as a scam if you can!
2007-03-21 22:31:53 · answer #10 · answered by Andromeda Newton™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋