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Question

tolld me you have won 2,500,000 american dollars ,also tolld me if you want to get this money you have to transfer our fee 350 pound how can beleive this lottery

Answer 1

You&#039;ve heard the saying, there&#039;s a sucker born every minute? P.T. Barnum said that over 100 years ago and look how the world&#039;s population has increased since then.

Answer 2

This is a great scam! Actually it&#039;s probably run from Nigeria, the Nigerians love this. They send you the money, you deposit it and send them back the difference, and then, voila, you are out the money you sent them because their transfer/check/whatever was no good to begin with. And if you get it once, they&#039;ll catch you again. And sometimes, when you want to stop playing, you/your family will be threatened by these people. Don&#039;t laugh, it&#039;s happened. My husband (he&#039;s in risk management) sees these things all the time and can&#039;t believe how stupid people are to believe it.  And guess what? The bank holds you accountable for everything you put into your account, so they do hold you liable. They will work out payments, but you will pay back the money or they will file charges and ruin your credit rating. Look, report it as spam and hit delete as fast as you can! It&#039;s for the best, you did not win anything.

Answer 3

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 4

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 5

Don&#039;t believe it bunkie.  You receive an unsolicited email, which states that you have won a major prize in an international lottery. Supposedly, your email address was collected online and attached to a random number that was subsequently entered in a draw for the lottery. In order to claim your prize, you are instructed to contact the official &quot;agent&quot; in charge of your case. You are also advised to keep the win confidential for &quot;security reasons&quot;. This part of the scam is basically a random phishing expedition. If you respond in any way to the email, the scammers will send further messages or even contact you by phone in an attempt to draw you deeper into the scam.

You may be asked to provide banking details, a large amount of personal information, and copies of your driver&#039;s license and passport. Ostensibly, these requests are to prove your identity and facilitate the transfer of your winnings. However, if you comply with these requests, the scammers will have enough information to steal your identity.

Sooner or later, the scammers will request some sort of advance fee supposedly to cover administration, legal or delivery costs. At its core, this scam is just a reworking of the Nigerian loan fraud, in which scammers also eventually ask for upfront fees to facilitate the &quot;deal&quot;. Like Nigerian scams, victims who do actually pay the requested fees will probably find that they receive continuing payment demands to cover &quot;unexpected expenses&quot;. The requests for money will go on until the victim realizes what is happening or has no further money to send.

In some cases, the scammers give victims the option of opening an account at a particular bank as an alternative to paying upfront fees. However, this &quot;bank&quot; which is completely bogus, will insist on an initial deposit of $3000 as a requirement for opening the account. The fake bank will have a legitimate looking website to reinforce the scam. In other cases, the victim is given the option of travelling to an overseas destination and paying a cash fee to facilitate the release of the funds. However, any &quot;winnings&quot; released to the victim will be counterfeit and therefore worthless.

The details of the lottery scams vary regularly with regard to the name of the lottery itself, the country of origin, the sponsoring organization, the amount of the &quot;prize&quot; and other particulars. The scammers try to add a patina of legitimacy to their claims by mentioning real financial institutions, government departments or well-known companies. They may also provide links to slick looking, but fraudulent websites that are designed to back up information included in the scam emails. If the scammers are successful in establishing a dialogue with a potential victim, they may provide &quot;proof&quot; such as a scanned image of a supposed government official&#039;s ID and even photographs of the &quot;winnings&quot; in cash.

Complete list of SCAM e-mail addresses.

http://www.419baiter.com/_scam_emails/sc...