Below is the copy of message from email about my winning.
Dear Winner
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today, 3rd of
May 2007, of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO
PROGRAMME, held on the 20th of March, 2007.Your e-mail address
attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02
drew the lucky numbers:01-14-21-3-35-48, and a bonus number of 24 which
subsequently won you the lottery in the second category.You have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £100,983.00 in cash
credited to KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
£100,983.00
shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.
All participants of this online promotion programme were selected
randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw
system and extracted from close to 125,000 unions.Your assigned claims
agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release
of your funds....
2007-05-05 16:23:22 · 5 answers · asked by Acul F 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United Kingdom
Answer this: did you buy into a lottery?
If not then I would say this is unreal.
If it is too good to be true then 99.9% of the time, it is not true.
2007-05-05 16:33:50 · answer #1 · answered by Samantha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply put, most likely. The UK National Lottery requires (like, I'm assuming most lotteries) that you buy a ticket. If you didn't buy a ticket, you can't have won. According to the official website, they don't tell you how much you've won in an email and they don't ask for personal details. You can check the page in the sources for the Camelot advice.
2016-05-21 05:59:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My advice is......if you didn't enter the Lottery, how can you be a winner?!?!?!
DO NOT give these people any personal information because they are going to either steal you identity or if they ask for your account number to send you the money, well, you can kiss all your money good bye because they will steal it all. If they try to send you a check and tell you to just wire them the taxes or fees from the money you receive from cashing the check, well, your bank will notify you that the check was counterfeit and you will be responsible for paying that money back.
All I can say is DONT DO IT!!!!
2007-05-05 16:33:31 · answer #3 · answered by Elizabeth T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This might be the most common scam on the Internet right now. I "win" at least once a week.
If you respond, they'll notify you that you need to send money for a "delivery charge" for your "prize".
2007-05-06 01:41:44 · answer #4 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is a scam. Do not reply and do not send them any information
2007-05-05 16:33:28 · answer #5 · answered by erehwon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋