Has anyone ever heard of the "United Kingdom Lotto Lottery Inc."?

Question

Is it for real or a scam? Any winners ever receive their prizes by mail?

Answer 1

There is a U.K. lottery, but you need to purchase a ticket to be in with a chance of winning.  If, however you have received an unsolicited email stating you have won this lottery and haven't participated, then this is a SCAM. The below links confirm various scams and frauds, (including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scam) and has an online form for the reporting of such - (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

The UK national Lottery does exist. You have to buy a ticket though.there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it'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 3

I've never heard of it, but I am certain it is another scam.

The Internet is full of this kind of c**p, and they are even doing mail outs too these days.

There is only one lottery in the UK and it's not called that.  And a lottery only works if people buy tickets, giving money to random strangers around the world makes no sense.