2007-08-06 04:26:10 · 10 answers · asked by jaswanth t 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ Canada
This is a SCAM. Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.
Check out these sites for further information :
http://www.scambusters.com
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
http://www.police.west-tisbury.ma.us/internet_scams.htm
You can report illegal scams using the link below :
http://www.iwf.org.uk/howto/page.10.htm
2007-08-09 04:51:04 · answer #1 · answered by JillPinky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 'thequeenmother@yahoo.com' or 'disneyfreeticketsgenuine@yahoo.com' 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!)
2007-08-07 05:02:06 · answer #2 · answered by 'H' 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you got an email saying you won, it's a scam, so just delete it, you didn't win anything. And DO NOT submit any personal details.
If you bought a ticket in a Canada lottery and won, there should be instructions on the back of the ticket for claiming the prize, or ask at the place where you bought it.
2007-08-06 12:10:57 · answer #3 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I am assuming that you bought a ticket and that it came out a winner, and that this is not in response to a scam email claiming that you are a winner of a lottery that you never entered in a foreign county.
When I won Fantasy 5 in the Florida lottery in 1997, I took my winning ticket to one of six regional service centers. I turned my ticket in; they cut a check for me right there on the spot, minus taxes, and gave me a 1099 for the amount of taxes withheld. It was $39,000 minus about $11,000 for taxes.
There was a bank right down the road from the service center that cashed the check for me.
Depending of the size of the winnings, you will go to claim the winnings at the store at which you bought the ticket; a regional claim center; or your provincial capital or to Ottowa if it was a national lottery. I needed photo ID and my social security number for tax purposes and of course my winning ticket. They did not ask me for any banking information, etc.
Congratulations if this is a legitimate win. Best of luck!
2007-08-06 11:41:04 · answer #4 · answered by dottye7777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't, it's a scam. unless you really won the lottery then tack your tecket to the store you bought it at.
2007-08-06 11:29:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOTHING
except back to the shop where U bought the ticket
U did buy one didn't you? or is this a free money that you did not ask for
2007-08-06 11:31:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Give you full name, address and show governmental ID.
2007-08-06 19:55:49 · answer #7 · answered by kadnil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DON"T submit anything. It is a scam
2007-08-06 11:29:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No idea...except once you figure it out and receive the money, send it directly to my bank account. Thanks!!
2007-08-06 11:31:47 · answer #9 · answered by MadameZ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a hoax
2007-08-06 11:29:38 · answer #10 · answered by avsubbarao 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋