The email sent was from:
Microsoft Word Lottery, 3b Olympic Way,
Sefton Business Park,
Aintree,
Liverpool L30 1RD
and was most convincing! How can people get away with this?
2007-05-03 03:27:31 · 9 answers · asked by pru 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 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!)
2007-05-03 06:55:07 · answer #1 · answered by 'H' 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The address however is wrong. That post code is the one for Camelot who run the real British lottery, but it's Bootle not Liverpool, and Aintree is not part of the address either.
Oh, and Microsoft do not run a lottery of any kind in the UK or anywhere else. They make enough money from Vista, the last thing they want to do is hand out their profits to random people just for the sake of it.
2007-05-03 13:05:30 · answer #2 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a scam to me, I get those almost one a week. Do not give out any personal information, do not allow them to transfer any amount to your account just to get it into the country (of course they will need your account # to do this, NO NO NO). If you ever get another e-mail asking for money in order to transfer any amount, again, NO NO NO. For instance, send us $1500 USD for processing your $5,000,000 check, another NO! Or how about the one that says that a laywer is trying to contact you because of the death of a reletive: Mr./Mrs/Ms (your last name) who has passed away and in order to settle the estate of 2.5 million dollars (or something absurd). The old too good to be true, then it is. Any yet again, The e-mail that says: we need help transfering some millions of dollars into the USA, and in order to do that we will pay you 10% or 20% or 30% of the total amount just for helping, yeah, that would be a NO!
2007-05-03 10:48:11 · answer #3 · answered by wannabuildaboatguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam. Delete it now!
2007-05-03 10:35:04 · answer #4 · answered by Tigger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam. Delete it now.
2007-05-03 10:34:20 · answer #5 · answered by vudumom 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People will do anything to try to scam you.
2007-05-03 10:34:34 · answer #6 · answered by Blue Oyster Kel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont listen they are trying to get you, delete it quick!
2007-05-03 10:40:09 · answer #7 · answered by SuperShadow 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scam scam scam....
2007-05-03 10:34:50 · answer #8 · answered by Laea 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
idiot
2007-05-03 22:02:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋