i receive mail from Yahoo lottery that i won $ 250,000 is it true.what can i do?????

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Answer 1

There is no YAHOO & MSN Lotteries, UK (United Kingdom) Lottery, Netherlands Lottery, British Lottery, Thunderball Online Lottery in the UK, Australian Lottery, Spanish 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.

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!

I hope this is helpful, because I could sure use a best answer! I would appreciate it!

Answer 2

I received e-mails from them also, the only thing you can do is report it to yahoo because it is a SCAM.

The only reason i know this is because a few days before i got my first e-mail i was watching Oprah and they had a show just about scams. A women got an e-mail stating that she won the lotto and that she had to send her info in order to receive the money well she did and now she has a whole lot of problems.

SCAM, SCAM

Answer 3

Its a rip-off... imagine about it.. in case you gained a Lottery... everywhere contained in the international..... do not you imagine they could fly you obtainable so, they could have you ever on television and inspite of else... imagine about it.. the following contained in the U. S... If everyone wins some thing even close to a million.. Its all around the newspapers and tv... There probley going to objective to thieve your identity or when you fill out fee Processing.. There going to assert please deliver us (about) $5,000 for the taxes and processing expenditures... So, i does no longer do some thing yet, basically overlook about them.. Or write again and say.. deliver me the money and that i will deliver you the information again when I gained it.. they'll by no ability answer you again.. and that i might want to objective to call you internet provider and tell them about it... reliable success with each and every thing and enable us comprehend what occurs... Jay

Answer 4

Yahoo doesn't have a lottery. It's a scam.

Answer 5

Spam

Answer 6

Sure its true, and so when he asks for a $10,000 check to claim your winnings, send it right off to him. Its a SCAM, come on.

Answer 7

yeah, sure, you and all the other zillion ppl who got it

don't be a douche

but hey, if it is real, buy me a pygmy and some tater tots

Answer 8

Scam, scam & more scam