So your good Earl received a letter through the post informing me I had won some Spanish lottery I have never heard of...all I had to do to claim my winnings was send off my bank details...yeah right...
It is obviously a scam.
I'm sure I heard once that you can report these things to help stop them. Citizens advice? Trading standards? What do you reckon, hmmmm?
2007-12-30 22:40:17 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
on the news a while back
it said ignore and bin them
2007-12-30 22:50:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Post it on http://www.419legal.org/ ... no governmental agency is going to DO anything with any information you forward them... Also, if it's from a yahoo or hotmail account, turn on your full headers and forward a copy to abuse@yahoo.com (or hotmail)... This won't really DO anything except get THAT account turned off... a 3 minute inconvenience and perhaps they lose their list of victims!
2007-12-31 16:38:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go green and recycle it
2007-12-31 15:47:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
trading standards then citizens advice bureau, then send letter back saying they can have a cut of the winnings when they send the money to you. worked for me as I haven't heard from them since.
2007-12-31 14:29:06 · answer #4 · answered by lily 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is advice available on both the National Lottery Commission and National Lottery websites although both are fully aware of these scams from Spain and Africa.
2007-12-31 11:54:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Send it back in an envelope with no stamp, if there's an address, if theres a return envelope use that. It costs them nothing if you throw it away.
2007-12-31 07:00:44 · answer #6 · answered by Ern T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shread the letter I get them all the time
2007-12-31 06:56:29 · answer #7 · answered by Tumbledown Teddy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had a few of these over the years the thing to do is wipe your a...hole with it and send it back to them
2007-12-31 06:50:45 · answer #8 · answered by RAH RAH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bin it
2007-12-31 06:50:32 · answer #9 · answered by roger69 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just mark it as spam and you shouldn't get anymore from that source.
2007-12-31 06:49:48 · answer #10 · answered by Deafro 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋