Notification from British Lottery Inc. that I have won lottery prize money without playing it. Is that true.?

Answer 1

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/internet-scams.html
http://www.police.west-tisbury.ma.us/internet_scams.htm

You can also report illegal scams. Here is the link below :
http://www.iwf.org.uk/howto/page.10.htm

Answer 2

Nope. By the way, no British company has the words "Inc." after it's name. That is an American invention. Genuine companies would have "Plc" or "Ltd" after it.

All this is besides the point mind - this email originates from Nigeria, where scammers don't know about such technicalities and they are just chancing someone will fall for it based on good old-fashioned human greed and someone believing that you do indeed get something for nothing in this world. Sorry to disappoint you, but you don't! All you'll get is several thousand pounds poorer and an emptied bank account. Don't even go there. Delete the email now - plus any others you might get over the coming weeks months and years from "Yahoo Lottery Inc.", "Australia Lottery Company" and a myriad other fake lottery organisations - none of them exist. Even if the lottery company does exist (some perport to be from Camelot, the real UK lottery operator), look out for that return email address. Scammers invariably invite you to send your claim back by email to "[e-mail]" for example. Major international companies do not use free webmail accounts to communicate with the public. Poor use of English grammar and spelling are usually another giveaway that the originators of an email are not English.

And no, you can't win a lottery without playing it!

Answer 3

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 4

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 5

Not a chance mate, If you play the Lottery in the UK and really win they don't tell you anyway!!

You have to present your winning ticket.

Hey if you get an email from a Nigerian businessman telling you he's gonna give you millions of pounds if you let him transfer funds to your account........guess what, thats a scam too!

Answer 6

there is no such thing as british lottery Inc. the british lottery is run by a company called Camelot.
There are no Inc's in UK, only limited companies etc.

Answer 7

If you haven't paid out to play, it's probably a scam. You don't get something for nothing in this world, people always want something in return. It probably says something along the lines of that you have to send money / details to receive a cheque somewhere in that letter I would imagine.

Answer 8

This is a very common scam, and comes in to all different people in all different places with all different lotteries around the world.
What happens is that they then ask you to send THEM money to "finalise" your paper work, and they get your money, but you never get ANY back.
Just delete it.

Answer 9

If you've not entered it, you cant win it. Forget it, SCAM! this is normally a scam to get hold of personal details - and in a world of Identity theft - this is normally the best way to get yours.

Answer 10

The word 'Inc.' should tell you. It is an American scam we do not ever use the term 'Inc' If you dont play you dont win