Do i need to contact this # to confirmed if it is true?that i won this lottery tiket attached?

Question

my officemate won a TOYOTA PROMOTION.1,500kd in cash he recieved d money after he send all his infomation including his bank account,and he never enter any raffles draw but he recieved the money.now i recieved info that i won"A LOTTERY" that my mobil # attached to their tiket,and they gave me the contact # including [e-mail] for further infomation.

Answer 1

This is an e-mail scam that is commonly referred to as Advance Fee Fraud. It is named such because, to claim the (nonexistent) prize, you will have to pay various fees in advance.

In the example of the fake lottery, you will usually be asked to pay a "courier fee." This can be a few hundred dollars or more. But when you wire the money (the scammers prefer Western Union or Money Gram, as it's very difficult to trace these transactions), there will be another fee, or another excuse as to why you have not yet received the check.

You'll keep sending money until you either run out of money or realize that you've been scammed. Either way, there is little that can be done to recover the cash that you've sent to these con artists. They operate all over the world, so it's not likely that your local law-enforcement division would even have jurisdiction in the case.

The safest thing to do is to simply delete the e-mails. Some of these cases are in fact under investigation, so reporting the scammer's e-mail address to the provider, which gets the account closed, might destroy an ongoing investigation.

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Any time you receive a "You've won the lottery!" type of e-mail, ask yourself these questions. They'll help you confirm that the e-mail is a scam (as so many of them are, in fact, scams).

One: What provider is this person using? Real lottery commissions do not use GMail, Yahoo! Mail, or other free, Web-based e-mail accounts.

Two: When did you buy the lottery ticket? If you don't play that lottery, then how can you win?

Three: Does the alleged lottery sponsor (Microsoft, Yahoo!, et cetera) have any information about this lottery on the official Web site? (Don't check whatever link that might be in the scam e-mail, as this can lead to any site. Go to the official Web site to look up information, if any exists, about this so-called lottery.)

Answer 2

This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various email scams hitting the internet, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them.

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/an...

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. Just 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/