A kenneth Brown emailed me telling me that I won promotional prize going on thru yahoo.co.uk that is giving a lottery in the uk and told me that I was one of the 17 other individual have won a part 22,500 million pounds and I was one that won on a lottery thru yahoo.c.uk. Can you tell me if this true or not? I want to know if this a scam?
2007-03-26 06:09:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
I would have thought that the total advertised would have put you off,sorry to inform you that it is a scam if "Yahoo" were going to do something like that, WOW! let me see over XX million users worldwide, times or divided by £22.500 million = not much.
2007-03-26 06:39:24 · answer #1 · answered by edison 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many Nigerian scams that are showing up nowadays. Please read the following carefully:
I can guarantee you that if you listen to these punks you will lose every bit of money you have and never receive any prize money as such a prize does not exist.
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!
2007-03-29 20:17:43 · answer #2 · answered by Guerrilla M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question has come up 4 times since last Monday. It is a scam. You do not win vast amounts of money for nothing. Do not get in touch as probably asked by e mail, letter, telephone, text or any other means. Do not give any personal detail in any way shape or form. Ignore it and answer some good questions.
2007-03-26 06:50:20 · answer #3 · answered by ANF 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing. This has been going around for months, and has been asked at least 50 times.
This is a SCAM to get your personal information. Mark it as spam, delete it and forget about it. And stop opening emails from people you do not know.
2007-03-26 06:18:16 · answer #4 · answered by Enchanted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not true. It is a scam and going by the number of people I heard receiving this e-mail, you must be one of at least 10,000 others and not just 17. Just delete it!
2007-03-26 13:53:03 · answer #5 · answered by Seng Kim T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There has been a lot of people getting them mails.It is a scam get rid of it.
2007-03-28 03:17:17 · answer #6 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah its a scam.
2007-03-26 06:17:15 · answer #7 · answered by Emily 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam ,Bin it.
2007-03-26 06:13:18 · answer #8 · answered by DickyNowItAll 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i'm guessin not true
2007-03-30 02:33:42 · answer #9 · answered by Randy D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TOTAL SCAM !!!!!!!!!
2007-03-26 08:27:04 · answer #10 · answered by David 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋