Did I win the lottery?

Question

I recieved an email from James Harold from yahoo group lottery promo. Informing me that I had won yahoo lottery. The verification number is yhm67545gb4532 with ticket# yhm09788. Please send email to confirm winning to [e-mail]. Thanks!

Answer 1

don't do anything... big SCAM

Answer 2

Well you won James Harrold's lottery. LOL

Answer 3

If you did not go On Something-Then you Can Not Win it- its a scam.

You don't get Things Free- not in This Life.

If it Sounds Too Good to be True?

it probably IS.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

its well known scam. if you didnt enter it how can you win it?

Answer 6

No!!! the simple answer is if you did'nt put the lottery on you have not won  .lots of people fall into the trap and give there bank details out

Answer 7

i woundent get to exited its probaly a scam.

Answer 8

scam.

Answer 9

I'm sorry to tell you that the e-mail you received is a scam. The message sounds too good to be true because it is. There is no such thing as the Yahoo! Lottery. The same goes for MSN, Toyota, AOL, Coca-Cola, et cetera. None of these companies are giving away money to random Internet users.

Rather, scammers are collecting e-mail addresses from all over the Internet and bombarding them with these fake e-mails. If you reply to this scam e-mail, the con artist will soon ask you for money. There are many excuses for why the scammer wants money, but they're all lies.

Many scammers will tell you that you need to wire them money to cover "courier fees." When you do this, the scammer will come back soon to ask for more money. This will continue until you are either broke or wise to the scam. Either way, you have lost your money - and there will not be a lottery prize to collect at the end of this mess, either.

Some scammers will even go so far as to provide you with documents as "proof" that they are trustworthy. You might receive a scanned copy of a passport as identification. This is either fake or stolen. Seeing an ID proves nothing. And anybody with MS Paint and five minutes of free time can forge confirmation papers, lists of winners, or other such documents to convince victims that the lottery winnings are real. The scammers will try to make their cons look as genuine as possible so as to extract your money from you.

You can confirm that you've received a scam e-mail by doing one or more of these things:

* Open the company's official Web site in a fresh browser window. Yahoo!, MSN, et cetera will not have any information on their Web sites about their lottery drawings or giveaways. This is because these companies are not really giving away money. At the most, you might find a fraud warning on these official Web sites. This is an excellent indication that you're being scammed, as companies that *are* giving away money will promote this fact all over the place.

* Copy part of the e-mail and paste that into a search engine. Many known scam e-mails are collected and published at various anti-scam Web sites. These pages are there to help spread the word about these scams so that fewer people will fall for them. Use these free tools to your advantage: search parts of any suspicious e-mail you receive before you reply.

* Contact your local law-enforcement department. More often than not, somebody there is familiar enough with this widespread scam to confirm that it is not real.

You should delete the scam e-mail and forget about it. If you have not actually lost money to the scammer, you do not have a case for law enforcement to investigate. They're busy trying to catch the scammers who have stolen from actual victims. Reporting the scammer's e-mail account to the provider to have the box closed might seem like a good idea, but this can ruin an active law-enforcement investigation.

You can also warn people you know about these scams. The more people we all tell, the fewer potential victims these low-life scammers will have.

http://www.scamwarners.com is an excellent Web site for more information about fake lottery scams and other, similar cons.

Answer 10

did you join a lottery lately? if you did not its a fraud.

Answer 11

It's a scam, a fraud, sent by a criminal.  It's all about money laundering, which I don't think you want to get involved in.  Just delete it.

Answer 12

no

Answer 13

there is no doubt that you won the lottery

Answer 14

Just did that. You won $25million. Well done.

Answer 15

i had something similar last year and being stupid , i replied via email , i then got another email telling me my money was all ready etc and to send £200 to cover admin and processing costs , i think they also wanted my bank details and address , birthdate etc , its a scam usually from somebody in nigeria,

other forms of this scam include email stating a long lost relative with same surname as yourself has died and left you a fortune , again they will ask for a few hundred quid for processing and your personal details

all scams, how can you win something you never entered?

Answer 16

all bullshit..................go n get urself a lyf..

Answer 17

SCAMMEROONY!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 18

its another scam.