e-mail stated that my e-mail address was chosen to be the winner in the drawings held on March 22nd 2007, e-mail is asking me to provide some personal information
2007-03-26 08:49:10 · 19 answers · asked by Premy C 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
It is scam. Yahoo (insert any company name here, this answer works for all!) 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lottery_sca...
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery-scams.html
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!)
2007-03-26 10:10:59 · answer #1 · answered by 'H' 6 · 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 20:17:10 · answer #2 · answered by Guerrilla M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Congratulations but its a scam /everybody but everybody knows these e mails are a scam/ you do to so why waste time putting this as a question
what did you win!
make all of your personal information and bank details readily available to everyone ,then you wont to get any more Scam emails lol
2007-03-26 09:00:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Did you enter a lottery draw hosted in London by yahoo and msn"? If NO then how did you win?
2007-03-26 08:55:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you not already know the answer to this?!?!
This has been asked several times already with the same answers from every user. It is a scam. So is the Nigerian bank email going around.
2007-03-26 08:57:40 · answer #5 · answered by Thegustaffa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My best advise would be to ignore it for a long time i was getting letter stating i gad won €50,000 and all i had to do was fill out forms and send €50 what a gimmick.
2007-03-28 10:45:00 · answer #6 · answered by Busybee yep! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo doesn't run a lottery. It is a scam. Avoid.
2007-03-27 09:14:24 · answer #7 · answered by Sanjay M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you remember entering this contest then this IS a scam. I knew a guy I work with and he fell for this and his credit was RUINED. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS!!!
2007-03-26 08:54:28 · answer #8 · answered by Bob V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should contact them right away and send them 5000 bucks processing fee immediately.
Don't worry about the $5000. I'm sure they'll send your million promptly.
2007-03-26 09:04:47 · answer #9 · answered by Toeless_Joe_Jackson 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
100% scam delete only
2007-03-26 08:59:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋