FreeLotto emails me $1million. How true? Shall I reply? Is this a ...?

Question

...<me> will be paid $1 Million (One Million Dollars) in the Classic FreeLotto Game or other prizes.

Answer 1

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/lo...

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 2

Well good gosh,  you won a million dollars in a lottery that you didn&#039;t even have to enter. How lucky can one be.

Go ahead and answer, they will of course need your bank account number to deposit the money in, or a large processing fee in order for you to collect the money.

If you even have to ask if this is true, you are a victim waiting to happen.

Answer 3

..and all you have to do is send them money for processing or something, right?

First of all, if you didn&#039;t enter it, you didn&#039;t win it. Why would a complete stanger want to send you a million?

Secondly, this goes on all the time. They are all scams.

They are not real, not legit. There is probably some clever wording that lets them through the legal loopholes, but don&#039;t send your money.

Answer 4

If it sounds like a scam then it normally is.  No you should not reply to the email.

Answer 5

Any amount that is over 3 digits are usually a scam.

However, you can try making your fortunes at www.twilighttables.com

Answer 6

Remember the cardinal rule; if it&#039;s too good to be true it is. If you didn&#039;t physically buy a lotto ticket from a trusted organization, then you shouldn&#039;t trust it. It&#039;s a scam. That is a common one is the UK lottery solicitations emails. All run by Nigerian letter scammers/spammers.

If you want to toy with these people try going to this website:

http://www.419eater.com

Scam the scammers is always fun.

Answer 7

Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it&#039;s a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeri...

http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showt...

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

.Also If you go to the following site 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 8

its a scam dont do it