I have recieved a mailfrm australian lottery awards that my email address won rupees 500,000.00 usd is it true

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I have recieved a mailfrm australian lottery awards that my email address won rupees 500,000.00 usd is it true

Answer 1

Yes, as the others have said, do not give any of your information away to these people.  They are all scam artists and are just phishing for your information and if your stupid enough to give them money (that they will keep) in exchange for your "so called lottery winnings".

What they do is ask for your personal details so that they can send your earnings to you.  So you do that and then they ask for anywhere from $700-900 for the courier fee to deliver this "check" to you.  They indicate that they must send it by courrier in order to make sure it gets to you and they have to charge this fee up front.  So if you are gullable enough, you think to yourself, well $700 isn't much if you've won this much money in the lottery.  These people end up keeping your money and close all emails they were using and there is never any trace of them again.  they then move on to the next helpless victim.  

Put it this way.......how  can you win something you never entered yourself into in the first place?  Make sense?  Well stick to what makes sense.

Hope this helps and please listen to the people here, don't fall victim to this scam.

Cheers,

B

Answer 2

No, basically what they want you to do is to give them your account info and everything so they can take out all they want.  It's one of the stupidest scams ever....they want you to pay like $1000 to give you this money so no...

Answer 3

No, they never work. I have gotten British, Australian, many! They are all scams

Answer 4

it is a scam.

Answer 5

Dude it is a scam... don't listen to it!

I get tons of those emails everyday. At first I was saving them for the police, but they don't care :(

Answer 6

This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various email scams hitting the internet and how to report them.

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...

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/

Answer 7

i have gotten like a million of then if they were true i would be the richest man on history

Answer 8

Sorry friend but 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 9

no .it's a scam