guys i have an email telling me that my email is attatched to a lottery no. which has drawn a sum of 1000000 pound sterling cash prize can you tell does yahoo has any contacts with uk national lottery
2007-08-21 01:31:15 · 19 answers · asked by rahul a 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
The lottery doesn't work that way. It's just a scam to get your bank account number and clean you out. Mark it as spam and forget it.
2007-08-21 01:41:18 · answer #1 · answered by David M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine is more than that and that must be very untrue about the lottery club as for all this time they have kept on sending mails asking me to give them some details about my credit card which will be very risky and which have not done up to today but the messages keep on coming. It's now long and they seem to take a uniform format. This is not true. Who can came up and push you into having/getting such an amount of money for free. Where are they getting this money from is another question. Can anybody who has won and been rewarded by these people come up and help us get this money. Why can't they ship the money right to you if they feel they must do it. and even if it will cost them them they should use the same money to cover up the expense for the delivery of this prize to you. Mate don't dare give your personal information for promises like these. We are living in the world of technology you might end up regretting the whole of your life.
2007-08-21 01:45:41 · answer #2 · answered by dviakal78 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For one you can never win something that you have not entered... and you will probably find the link in the e-mail, if you hovver over it, will be for some unusual site... look in the bottom left corner of your Explorer window. If it shows an IP address then 100% fake/spam/phishing....
It may show something that resembles a valid website, but you can confirm that by checking out the proper website for the company involved, i.e. the national lottery website.. almost gurantee they will not be the same...!
You can be 100% sure that any e-mail like that is spam, and trying to get details off your PC that you dont want to give away etc... but hopefully these details will give you some help on figuring out the good from the bad on the e-mails that you are still not sure about...! (Especially bank sites!!)
2007-08-21 01:40:01 · answer #3 · answered by bigman2ab 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a scam the uk lottery doesnt contact anyone by mail - delete it
2007-08-21 01:37:08 · answer #4 · answered by nethertry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It IS fake. Its a scam run by mostly people from S.Africa.
Visit www.419eaters.com and read all about it. Its a website where people who get such scam mails bait the people who are scamming. :D
2007-08-21 01:39:20 · answer #5 · answered by suzan p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an email scam, just ignore & delete it, i received it too twice a week, dont even reply on it.
2007-08-21 01:36:53 · answer #6 · answered by OgieV 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not do anything except delete it it is a money to find out scam ~~
2007-08-21 01:37:45 · answer #7 · answered by burning brightly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a scam originating in England.
2007-08-21 01:49:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm trying to say this as politely as possible- it's fake, delete it.
2007-08-21 01:35:56 · answer #9 · answered by Sue Li 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. If they are looking for any money, then you can be sure that it is a fake. Suggest that you ignore it.
2007-08-21 01:39:13 · answer #10 · answered by Beau R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋