I've recently gotten an email which says
THUNDERBALL WINNING under the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on
Saturday 24th February 07.
So I'm wondering it it's for real or not ? It says I've won some money but I'm not sure...it says to call a guy which lives over 3,000 miles away from my place so I'm not sure to waste $8 per minute on the call so if this is real any help will be appreciated thanks!
2007-04-30 09:50:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
No.
No legitimate government lottery anywhere is marketing to persons outside their own country, and in most cases, it is illegal to do so, unless you are a resident of the country. This is the case with the UK National Lottery.
Did you enter this lottery? I didn't think so. So you have not won.
Besides, many people get these spam e-mails all the time. I'd be pretty wealthy by now.
2007-04-30 10:04:31 · answer #1 · answered by Bryan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you remember entering this sweepstakes? Perhaps in a fugue state???
It's totally bogus. If you really won something they'd make a big hype deal out of it as most sweepstakes are for publicity. So unless you've seen Ed McMahon hiding in your bushes... all you will end up doing is getting a giant phone bill. Which, depending on the prefix can be a flat fee call depending on the scammer who set it up > much like a 900 number call. So instead of $8 a minute, you could just get slammed for $500.
2007-04-30 16:56:28 · answer #2 · answered by low_on_ram 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well to begin with rest assured its a scam
Everybody gets them all the time and they dont stop coming,
the best place for them is in the junk folder
next time you get an email saying you won millions of pounds ask yourself this
did i enter an acual competition?
does this cash even exist?
if the money is yours truly, why do u have to forkout more money to get it?
in yahoo mail there is a spam button, next time u get an email like this simply click on the spam button and it will be treated as junk email
2007-04-30 16:56:59 · answer #3 · answered by one of a kind 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you didn't play the lottery yourself...then you didn't win it, pure and simple. This is a typical scam that has been around on the interenet since around 2002.
Check out the link below
2007-04-30 16:57:35 · answer #4 · answered by notsosuremt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! 100% fake! How would the lottery get your e-mail? This is a scam along with a few thousand others so if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
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2007-04-30 16:54:06 · answer #5 · answered by hoes40 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally know someone whom lost 10's of thousands of dollars to this DO NOT RESPOND
2007-04-30 17:01:23 · answer #6 · answered by kellieanne h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Golden rule to remember.
If something sounds to good to be true, it probably
was a scam.
2007-04-30 16:55:16 · answer #7 · answered by rodjared 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a phony scam just like the Nigerian scam.
2007-04-30 16:53:34 · answer #8 · answered by John G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even heard of free lunch ? common sense will tell you this is a con
2007-04-30 16:53:55 · answer #9 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋