This is the secound time i get a email saying i won a lottery money and that i will receive a check , but that first i have to sent almost 2,000 in tax fees . I now it has to be a scam for a fact . But has anyone ever sent the money , and nows that it is 100% a scam?????? and have they try to find aout who is in back of these scams?
2007-09-08 15:42:31 · 18 answers · asked by sweetmemories 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
You shouldn't open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers.( http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam.html )
However, in this case since you have already opened up this email which is a probably a variant of the 419 Nigerian phishing scheme, display all headers and send it to Fraud Watch International. The email address is in the link to the webpage below.
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/lottery/
There are a couple Yahoo pages dedicated to the 419 Fraud
Yahoo Lottery Fraud
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/abuse-63.html
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/abuse-110240.html
2007-09-08 15:48:36 · answer #1 · answered by MLM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every week on the news is a story of someone who sent between £100 and £2000 for agency fees, release fees, local taxes etc and never heard from the place again.
Eastern Europe and Russia seem to be the latest source of these scams having taken over from Central Africa as the scammers paradise.
Occasionally sites like scam the scammers manage to turn the tables and lead the scammers a merry dance especially in the 419 type scams. Look them up for a good laugh.
2007-09-09 08:02:23 · answer #2 · answered by Steven 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not respond to any email claiming to be from any sort of lottery, whether you know of the company or not. Use your common sense - lotteries are held to make money, so if you didn't give them any money to enter it, why would they give you lots of it for nothing? If it's too good to be true it probably isn't. Do not respond to any email from a banker, president, or a relative or associate to a banker, president, or other type of financial leader from a foreign company asking you for personal information. Usually they are trying to get money "out of" some African country (Nigeria is a popular one) and into yours, and they even offer to let you keep it if they can use your bank account! Once again, use your common sense. This is a type of money laundering, and money laundering is illegal. Getting 10% of millions of dollars for just giving someone your bank account information? Once again, if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't. Saul
2016-04-03 22:03:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you have bought a ticket, you CANNOT have won a prize. There are no such things as "email" draws or any other lottery where "no tickets were sold".
Scam lottery emails will nearly always come from free email accounts such as Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, etc, and no real business will use a free email account.
If you have an email stating you have won millions, delete it, it's a scam!!
2007-09-08 16:15:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not personally, but our local news team did a story about a year ago about an elderly couple that did in fact send the money and of course, lost it all.
I got an email from Terri Irwin (allegedly-I highly doubt it was her that sent it, just someone using her name!)
They wanted to give me a large sum of money and all I had to do was send my bank info and they would deposit the money into my account.
I obviously didn't do it. I think it's crappy how they used her name though! (Terri Irwin is the widow of Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter! Crikey! )
Sorry you didn't win the lottery though! I did win $100.00 on a scratch off ticket! (WOO-HOO!!)
2007-09-08 16:02:24 · answer #5 · answered by lisa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never open an e-mail like. Delete it as soon as you see it.
You should know there is no free lunch anywhere! If you are dreaming in day time you always will get caught. Once you click on these kind of e-mail, your IP address will be extracted
by the sender. They could send a cookie, a virus to steal your
personal information remotely. Never open e-mail from anyone you do not know.
2007-09-08 15:56:13 · answer #6 · answered by Super Mimi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I sent a personal check a long time ago for this type of scam... the first time it was when i was 17 years old and didn't know anytying...
and never received anything nor a reply from them
2007-09-08 15:50:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing but a SCAM. Consider these facts:
- You never entered a lottery
- Someone in a foreign really does not want to send you money.
- How can you legally go after a foreigner in another country?
In fact, report this crime:
Visit http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.htm
Good luck and Happy Computing!
2007-09-08 15:49:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are using yahoo mail, dont open stuff like this just select it and click on spam.. That will automatically block the ip address of where it originated.. Your still going to get a bunch of them but over a period of time it will become less and less... This is true for any email you dont want to receive again..
2007-09-08 15:51:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone asking for money before they can send a check is a fraud. They should be able to simply deduct the amount needed from the check. Do not ever give out account numbers or personal information. They'll ask for this for electronic deposit. The next thing you know, they've used it to clean out your account.
2007-09-08 15:58:40 · answer #10 · answered by Jack 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋