I have been getting e-mails from the UK saying I have won One million thirty two thousand seven hundred twenty pounds Sterling. How much is this? and what should I do.
2007-05-31 18:01:29 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
How can you ever win a cash prize, when you have not even bought the 'online ticket' in the first place ? This is one of the oldest scams on the World Wide Web !
Forward the scam e-mail that you have got, along with your complaint, to :
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/
They will take due legal action, to bring the culprits before the concerned law enforcement agency.
2007-05-31 18:11:51 · answer #1 · answered by IndyaBelle 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is a scam, not unlike the Nigerian scam. I don't know of anyone with an email account who hasn't received one of these emails. One British pound is worth I think around $1.97 US, so that would make the prize money worth about two million thirty-four thousand four hundred fifty-eight dollars and forty cents in dollars.
2007-05-31 18:08:41 · answer #2 · answered by gibs_neil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes to a little over $2Million US Dollars.
It's obviously a fake. You're not going to win a lottery you didn't enter. If you question it, get rid of it. It's just like any other spam. If you click on it, they'll probably want info especially a credit card number.
Some of these are no more than a letter and aren't after any info. They are just there to be a nuisance. Just filter it out and you should be good.
2007-05-31 18:05:53 · answer #3 · answered by martinlh 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you already know the answer to this one... you cant win a lottery if you didn't buy a ticket....you just typed in your email addy somewhere and now you are getting junk mail... if you gave them your home addy, then you are getting more than usual junk mail at home. if you gave a phone # to, then they will call you at 9pm at night right when you settle in for a good movie to sell you a free cruise or some other b.s.. And the sad part is, now they have your phone # and email and they are going to sell it and a million more to another company who will call you at 8a.m. sunday morning to get you to re morgage your house. and it will keep going, and going, and going, and going,,,, until you change your email, and change your home address and your phone #...... don't give out that info to anyone or any web site..... just because a web site tell you to type it in dosen't mean you should..... if you don't trust a web site then make your home addy: 1234 main st. anytown, usa 77877
and your phone # is something like 888-123-4567.. and your email is something like...screwyou@spam.com..... and when the people call on the phone.... curse at them until they take you # off..... I have been doing it now for about a year... I went from about 10 calls a day from solicitors to about 1..... who ever lives at 1234 main st..... I am sorry.... you have been getting my junk mail for years now....
2007-05-31 18:42:18 · answer #4 · answered by quadcopter 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you respond to this mail, probably you will find them demanding for a nominal sum of money online. These guys collect money form thousands like this and just disappear only to come up with another plan.
Its all a scam. Dont fall for it.
2007-05-31 18:25:14 · answer #5 · answered by viks 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it's a scam. Did you actually enter this lottery? Did you pay money for a ticket? Of course not. They are trying to get your bank account details to steal off you. Just delete all of these kinds of emails.
2007-05-31 18:04:33 · answer #6 · answered by chazta01 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've been getting them too. I have just been deleting them because they want a lot of personal info. I figure they don't need to know where I went to school and if I'm married to pay me a bunch of money. Sounds like a scam.
2007-05-31 18:04:15 · answer #7 · answered by Shawna P 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this question yet again...
obviously it is a scam.... if you didn't enter a lottery how do you think you won it? Think about it. I get about 10 of these a day and never even open them. My spam filter just filters them out (it's email like this that spam filters were invented for)
2007-05-31 18:04:47 · answer #8 · answered by Lena 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spammers buy & trade lists, spider names & addresses off websites & open forums, and some use adware or spyware to slurp the info from a variety of places including your own computer, one of your friends who has you in their contacts, etc. Others take a dictionary approach and spam a range of addresses of a certain number of characters within a domain in the hopes of reaching at least a handful.
2016-05-18 02:20:24 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a major scam, and aims to do identity theft.
They will ask so many questions to "verify your identity" that they have enough information to get loans etc in your name, which YOU become liable for and have the headaches of trying to persuade the banks it was not you.
Steer clear, and delete
2007-05-31 18:05:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋