I want to ask if i win Ticket number: 56475000745 187at kent claim The British Exchange Online Lottery Award

Answer 1

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 '[e-mail]' or '[e-mail]' 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!)

Answer 2

Hey! WAKE UP! This scam has been around a long time before the dinosaurs walked. How can you actually question the legality of a "Lottery" win when you did NOT enter any competition and did NOT buy any Lottery ticket. Another fact is that the UK Lottery tickets do NOT have "Serial Numbers". European lottery tickets do as they are sold, preprinted, on the streets and it's the serial number that wins the prize. In the UK, you choose your own numbers and the registration is "Bar Coded", as well as logged into a Central Computer. Then again, if you are feeling greedy, you can ignore this, many people do and you can reply, give them your bank account details, name, date of birth etc. etc. and then you will deservedly lose all the money in your account and go well overdrawn. If you have a credit card, they will take all your credit. With the other details, they will get bank loans, mortgages and buy cars etc. Now I would suggest a trip to the doctors, for a good supply of tranquelisers as it's going to take year of stress and financial hardship to convince the Credit Rating companies, the banks and other lenders that all that debt is not yours and you have nothing to do with the fraud.

Answer 3

Its a SCAM..
Think about it.. If you won a Lottery... Anywhere in the WORLD..... Don't you think they would fly you out there so, they can have you on TV and whatever else...
Think about it.. Here in the US.. If anyone wins anything even near a million.. Its all over the newspapers and TV...

There probley going to try and steal your identity or after you fill out Payment Processing.. There going to say please send us (about) $5,000 for the taxes and processing fees...

So, I wouldn't do anything but, just ignore them.. Or write back and say.. Send me the money and I'll send you the info back once I received it..
They will never answer you back.. and I would try and call you Internet provider and tell them about it...

Good luck with everything and let us know what happens...
Jay

Answer 4

This is definitely a fraud., check the name out online it actually comes from Nigeria, nothing British about it.

Answer 5

Sounds dodgy to me. Probably a scam.

Answer 6

No such thing. There is no prize, and there is no real lottery by this name.

Answer 7

If you didn't enter, you didn't win!