Some lotteries in London mailed me that i won prize , are these lotteries serious and trust?

Answer 1

If you never played the lottery, then you did not win.

These are scams.

Answer 2

Question 1: Did you ENTER the lottery?
Answer 1: NO.

Answer 2: Of course it's a scam! See the above!

Answer 3

Absolutely NOT trustworthy! These things have been making the rounds through emails for years. Any contest you have not entered is a scam, and probably a lot of ones people DO enter.

Definitely do not trust any email from anyone, private person with some sob story, or a business or institution, that wants you to give them your private information!

I once got one from England that asked for my bank information, including my social security number, pin number, bank account number.... with all that information they could have went into my account and done anything they wanted! NO WAY! Don't give them any information. In this particular case I called my bank and gave them the information. They had me forward the original email I received to their fraud department, who checked it out just to be sure. Even though the supposed lottery gave a bank site to go to and all, it was as crooked as a dog's hind leg, which is to say, it was a total scam! It was turned over to the FBI, and you can do the same thing.

Any time you get something that seems like a scam or fraudulent in any way, you can check with your bank, or go to the official FBI site online and email their fraud department. The only way to stop these things, or at least slow them down, is to just do it.

Ok, rant over. (I get a bit excited about these darn things... they rip off people, especially older people who grew up in a time when you could actually trust the world in general.)

Lili

Answer 4

I've been getting those too. I also get mailed regularly from some dignitary that is in some dire predicament that needs to find someone in the US to wire money to. If you help them, they will give you half. These are all scams. What they do is send you something counterfeit like a check or money order. They overpay you and ask if you can send the overpayment back. They usually press you to do it immediately after you recieve the check. The reason they do this is the check or money order is counterfeit and if they can get you to wire any money to you then you are out that money when the check comes back counterfeit and the bank takes the money back out of your account. It's becoming a very common scam and unfortunately people fall for it. The lotto thing is just another variation. My advice is for you to mark anything like that as spam and do not respond.

Answer 5

Did you enter a lottery in London? I get emails from that sort of thing all the time. It's a scam.

Answer 6

This is a serious effort that you can trust to clean out all your bank accounts and leave you penniless. Plus they aint really in London. Probably the Russian Mafia.

Here is more info on the type of scam involved.
http://www.knujon.com/depscam.html

Answer 7

a total scam i get at least 5 a week just hit the scam button on your email page if we all keep on sending these back to yahoo as a scam maybe they will do something about it and find out where these are coming from i just kept forwarding them to yahoo to no avail so i just hit scam button now.

Answer 8

don't do it! I have heard that when you call them, they mail you a check, they talk some people into mailing some of that money back or all of it, and then when the check or money order go through your bank they discover that it's a fraud & you are stuck oweing all that money.
throw it away, trust me

Answer 9

you common sense! did you enter a lottery in london?if not then common sense should tell you it is a scam

Answer 10

did you enter the london lottery? if not, then they're scams! ignore them!