what are you thinking about this although you have great minds srrounding you.
2007-10-11 15:41:05 · 19 answers · asked by Ilyas k 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Other - Games & Recreation
Did you bet in the lotto? If not and they said you won, it's a scam. If you did bet, and they said you won, what PIN code are they asking? Hope not it's not your Debit card, because it's a scam.
2007-10-12 15:55:20 · answer #1 · answered by guardEd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A typical lottery scam begins with an unexpected email notification that "You have won!" a large sum of money in a lottery. The recipient of the message — the target of the scam — is usually told to keep the notice secret, "due to a mix-up in some of the names and numbers," and to contact a "claims agent." After contacting the agent, the target of the scam will be asked to pay "processing fees" or "transfer charges" so that the winnings can be distributed, but will of course never receive any lottery payment. Many email lottery scams use the names of legitimate lottery organizations, but this does not mean the legitimate organizations are in any way involved with the scams.
There are several ways to recognise a fake lottery email:
* 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". This is simply another invention by the scammer to make you believe you've won.
* The scammer will ask you to pay a fee before you can receive your prize. It is illegal for a real lottery to charge any sort of fee. It doesn't matter what they say this fee is for (courier charges, bank charges, various imaginary certificates — these are all made up by the scammer to get money out of you). All real lotteries subtracts any fee and tax from the prize. They never ask you to pay it in advance.
* 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.
Another type of lottery scam is a scam email or web page that tells the recipient he has a sum of money in the lottery. The recipient is instructed to contact an agent very quickly, in some cases offering extra prizes (such as a 7 Day/6 Night Bahamas Cruise Vacation, by Sundance Vacations if the user rings within 4 minutes). After contacting the "agent", the recipient will be asked to come to an office, where during one hour or more, the conditions of receiving the offer are revealed. For example, the prize recipient is encouraged to spend as much as 30 times the prize money in order to receive the prize itself. In other words, although the offer is in fact genuine, it is really only a discount of a few percent on an extremely expensive purchase. This type of scam is legal in many jurisdictions.
Sometimes Lottery scam messages are sent by ordinary mail; their content and style is similar to the e-mail versions. For example some scams by letter misuse the names of the legal Spanish lotteries El Gordo and La Primitiva.
2007-10-11 15:45:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let Me guess. You won the second prize of 250,000.oo in London, have been notified via Hong Kong, and only have 48 hour in which to reply? In Australia there is a Yahoo section that deals with the 'Lotto'. That is a real site. The one to which You allude is a bogus site, and should be reported immediately.
Just notify 'Yahoo Team' with the details of the Emails and messages received.
Cheers, Ashleigh.
2007-10-11 15:48:50 · answer #3 · answered by Ashleigh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a scam. For no reason anyone should never ever need your pin code.
Never give personal information at all like that. A SS#...passwords...ect. NEVER
2007-10-11 15:45:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
under no circumstances enter your mastercard form in any email style. under no circumstances enter your mastercard form onto any information superhighway website, till you're making an information superhighway purchase on a secure information superhighway internet site. while making an information superhighway purchase, you'll be the single to commence up the transaction, from a information superhighway tackle for the web save which you entered into your information superhighway browser, not by potential of clicking a link on yet another website.
2016-10-22 02:37:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a scam mate. don't ever think you get something for nothing, they will empty your bank account.
also, if you get the other type, never send money to 'clear' the win, thats e scam to. real lotteries ONLY give you prizes if you've paid to enter .
2007-10-11 15:46:21 · answer #6 · answered by dick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds a bit like a scam. E-mail them and ask if your not 100% sure
2007-10-11 15:43:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just dont do it! Theres people going around scanning people for thousands of dollars! I heard that its the same people doing it. Dont do it, no matter what! You might be the next victom!
2007-10-11 15:44:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ANYONE who asks you for a PIN is a crook. End of story.
2007-10-11 15:43:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you didn't enter it, don't be a mug, or you will lose all your dough. The scumbags who do this make money from mugs who believe anything is free.
2007-10-11 15:45:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋