Are this sweepstakes online or lottery for real or only hoax?

Question

Such as THE AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAMME and the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.

Answer 1

If you received an email saying you won, IT IS A SCAM!

There is a way to legally buy US and European lottery tickets online, but they will NEVER send you an email telling you that you have won!

Answer 2

Majority of them are an attention grabber so they can enter you for other things like email offers and credit cards. So 95% of them are a hoax, so I've experienced.

Answer 3

If you have received an unsolicited email stating you have won such a lottery and you haven't participated, then this is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them - (with links for your own country.) :

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/sc...

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...

Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Please remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.

Check out these sites for further information :

http://www.scambusters.com

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

Answer 4

You don't get anything for nothing, , it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information

www.scambusters-419.co.uk

www.truthorfiction.com

.Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful

Answer 5

http://www.419eater.com/