i received on e-mail a big amount of money at euro-afro-american sweepstake lottery .did that exist?is a scam?

Answer 1

if you have no documents showing you entered it, it is a scam.

Hint: this question has been asked here before about the same exact 'sweepstakes'. ;-)

Answer 2

I can answer this question for you fine. Do not send these people any money or personal information! You can be 100% sure that you haven't won anything right now and here's an explanation of exactly what the notice you've recieved is intended to do.

If you are already a victim contact the U.S. Secret Service via email. This address will be provided toward the end of this answer!

I would laugh at the proposed scam and surely not respond to the punks responsible.

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 British National Lottery Award, 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, UK/FRANCO/GERMANY 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. The Euro Asian whatever you talk about is a perfect example of how you can hand your lifesavings over to some fat-sweaty nigerian con-man (and your i.d. too).

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!

Answer 3

Scam

Answer 4

Scam

Answer 5

Unless you can clearly remember entering this "lottery" then it is a definite scam. Delete that e-mail immediately. Above all do not answer it, and under no circumstances let them have any information about your identity or financial affairs.
As these things are sent out in bulk they have no way of knowing who they have reached unless you tell them. At which point you are in grave danger of becoming a victim or identity theft.

Answer 6

Scam, scam, scam. The people who send these sort of emails are out and out thieves and just want to part you from your hard earned cash. They often ask you to call a premium rate telephone number then keep you hanging on until you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this bill. Delete these type of emails, send them into cyberspace along with the thieves who send them. They are scum.

Answer 7

There are websites for checking these things. I think the best known is Snopes, and you can read what they say about this particular scam here:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/lottery.asp

I'm not crazy about Snopes because they override my pop-up blocker, they sometimes lean a little toward political commentary, and you can't copy and paste parts of their info, in case you want to briefly and quickly inform the person who sent you the hoax in the first place.

But if you search for urban legends and/or hoaxes you'll have many choices.

Probably should get in the habit of checking these things out -- there are so many of them...

Answer 8

Hey,

I get email from the same lottery. Trust me, it is a scam. Here is more information

http://419.bittenus.com/Euro-Afro-American-Lottery/index.htm

Apparently, some gal did her homework :)

Answer 9

Hi Gabriel,

You need to be very careful in dealing with those lottery emails as 99.5% of them have been proved to be scam. I have also received similar ones in dozens.

Best of luck.

Nkem.

Answer 10

Just to let you know they are all scams. I f you watch the court shows you can see how many people get taken with it. When I get it I reply back in capital letters SCAMMMMMMMMM!
I get a kick out of doing that, but seriously they are all scams.
normagirl2

Answer 11

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