I have been getting emaill from people from the UK, Africa, say I won a lottery are they for real.?

Question

I have been getting emaill from people from the UK, Africa, say I won a lottery are they for real.?

Answer 1

Are you for real?

Answer 2

duh of course they are

i mean you jus got all that money for doin nothing..take it

all you gotta do is enter your social security number

your pin number

and your address

Answer 3

Tell them to send the winnings first and that you will give them their cut later...with interest of course.....

Answer 4

Dont answer them at all, they are africans trying to get your id.

If you give them your details they make fake id etc and use your account for money laundering

Answer 5

Definitely not ... delete them

Answer 6

No it is scam. The people that sent you the email are hoping your greed outweighs your common sense.

Delete and mark as spam.

Answer 7

Of course they are real, but to get the cash, you may have to travel to Mars, dodging the flying pigs, and lead balloons as you go, then surrender everything you may own, to some shark waiting in the red water up there. What planet are you on? I may be able to sort a route out for you, from

Multimap.

Answer 8

spam. even police nows about it. but no body bothered to stop them. sad.

Answer 9

for the 4th time today delete it now

Answer 10

did they also tell you they are the widow or orphan of someone in the government and they will give you 10 or 15% of a few hundred million dollars if you will let them transfer the money to your bank account? Delete everything that is not from someone you know without opening it.

Answer 11

NO - stay well away from having anything to do with it !!!!

Answer 12

Absolutely not. Don't get involved - they are all scams. Lets face it, if you didn't buy tickets how can you win?

Answer 13

No. more than likely to be a scam.

If there asking for bank details or payment upfront it's a scam.

Winners of genuine lotteries have brought a ticket and don't have to pay upfront to recieve their prize.

Answer 14

No these are a scam. The best thing to check for is that most of them are PO box's so it is impossible to trace these people. Dont get caught by this it isnt worth it

Answer 15

NO!

It'll be some scam to get in contact with you.  Could be for all sorts of reasons.

One scam is they will ask for your bank details so that they can deposit the money in your account.....from there i don't know what they do, but identity theft is one.

Ignore the emails.

Answer 16

I'm not getting E-mails but snailmail.  All of this year a firm has been haunting me insisting I have won £20,000.00 and all I have to do is send them a tenner for administration costs. Some hope.  Two weeks ago along came a cheque, more than one person had won the twenty thousand pounds and it had been split between us... here was my share... a cheque for 31pence!

Answer 17

Absolutely not. Total scam. Delete them now. Nobody can win a lottery in which they have not entered.

Answer 18

yes of course

send them all your bank details too

DOLT

Answer 19

Nothing in this world is ever for free - so if something sounds and looks too good to be true it usually ISN'T true!

Its a scam - don't send them any of your details.

Answer 20

if you did not buy a lottery ticket you will not be a winner.  scams abound, they prey on our curiosity and wishful thinking.  forget it

Answer 21

i didnt know the UK was in Africa!!

im no good at geogrphy but id guess its a con!!!!

Answer 22

if youre stupid enough to even think about it then i fear for the rest of civilisation