WINNING NOTIFICATION
Uk National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of the
E-mail address ballot lottery international program held by Great
Britain. For This New Year 2007, Your email account have been picked as
a winner of ONE MILLION POUND (1000,000.00). This results is now
released to you.This promotion is part of this year Yahoo! lottery
email users bonaza. Uk National Lottery is approved
by the British Game Board.correspondence. Be advice to keep your
winning information confidential until your claims has been processed
and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program,
For the release of your winning, collect your winning before 1weeks.
kindly submit the completed form to your verification unit:
VERIFICATION FORM BELOW:
*Name of Winner:
*City/State: *Nationlity:
*Sex:
*Phone no:
*Occupation:
Contact:Mr James William
Email Adress: uk2007email_lottery@yahoo.co.uk
Accept my hearty congratulations once again
Mrs. Mary Andre
Zonal Coordinator,
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
2007-04-04 08:45:10 · 22 answers · asked by B 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
It's a barely legal way of parting stupid people from their money.
2007-04-04 08:49:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 haven ot bought a ticket. Anyone can set up an email account with Yahoo, they can use any combination of letters they choose. I could be 'thequeenmother@yahoo.com' or 'disneyfreeticketsgenuine@yahoo.com' That doesn't mean that I am either of these and is fine as long as I don't try to use the address to mislead people. Don't be fooled by legitimate looking email addresses which end the same way as any other free account, don't be fooled by fictitious titles such as 'Dr' or 'Executive Director of Winner Claims'.
(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!)
2007-04-04 21:08:44 · answer #2 · answered by 'H' 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't get anything for nothing, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information. Just google scam and see how many hits yoou get, there are millions of them and they are all aimed at taking your money.Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful.
2007-04-06 11:24:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, this is how they get you. The same goes for the mobile phone thing you enter. You always win the holiday, but you muist send a £20 admin fee to them. In this case you have to pay them to send you the money. You won a million, surely they can afford to send it to you for free. So watch out, don't send any money, you'll never receive anything back. The courier company does exist, because you have to send them money
2007-04-04 20:54:02 · answer #4 · answered by Johan J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know if this is genuine or not. Most likely a scam so probably not legal.
The reason I am not sure if it is genuine is that I checked the courier service that will apparently be delivering my cheque (£252,000) does actually exist so what do I do now.
So what to do now, I dont now but very dubious. Also they have not asked for any bank details.
Regards
2007-04-04 09:43:51 · answer #5 · answered by heather b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spam Spam
2007-04-04 08:48:43 · answer #6 · answered by ♥shushin♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lol. No it amazes me how gullible people actually are. If it was legitimate everyone who has an email account would be rich. I get those all of the time.
2007-04-04 08:51:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a load of crap! Anyone who believes this needs their heads testing!! I always reply to them saying thanks for the money, funny how ive won considering that I never do the lottery in the first place!! Put that you will report them too!
2007-04-04 08:58:22 · answer #8 · answered by Lorraine A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There has been so many of these posts in the last few days.
please all it is spam, don't give them any details !
or if you're thinking about it you may as well give your credit card details and bank numbers at the same time.
2007-04-04 08:50:03 · answer #9 · answered by weezyb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a coincidence, I won the same lottery :-)! So did all my friends though. So yeah, I guess it is not legit. Sorry.
2007-04-04 08:49:51 · answer #10 · answered by desertjewelcats 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋