I received email saying that i have won 750,000 uk pounds from a lottery conducted by united nations???????

Question

I was requested to send 465GBP from Imperial Assets&Finance Company in UK to deposit the winning money into my account in Sri Lanka. Is this a fraud?????

Answer 1

Lots lots lots of fraud lottery winner letter doing the rounds  the just want your address   Dont reply PLEASE

Answer 2

Yes these are all frauds. I get about 3 or 4 a day saying I won a lottery or someone died and left me money. People I don't even know. Every time I tell them to send me the money they want me to send them about $300. to cover the deliver of a so called credit card. I will  not send money so they quit talking to me. I tell them send me the money and I will give some to you when I get it but they won't. After I tell them I'm giving the proper authorities their information they quit talking to me. DO NOT SEND THEM ANY MONEY OR GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONNEL INFORMATION BECAUSE THEY WILL ROB YOU BLIND. I HAVE READ SO MANY OF THESE AND SEEN THIS ON LOCAL NEWS ABOUT THE SCAMS. DON'T BELIEVE THEM. Ask them how come your name was chose out of millions of people. They can't come up with an answer. Just don't believe them.

Answer 3

Did you buy a ticket??

Answer 4

This is called a 419 scam.  The FBI have details about these here:

http://www.ic3.gov/preventiontips.aspx#i...

and here is the wiki page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee...

Answer 5

yes ita scam, dont send anything

Answer 6

h**l yes - people get caught in these all the time.  Even if you had entered a competition like this, always be wary of companies asking for money first to release money for you..  Remember - if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is.

This is a total scam.

Answer 7

Do you believe that there are people spending all day just trying to give money away (and of course asking for some cash first) ?

If you do, send the money.

Answer 8

Yes, it's a scam. Delete it and forget it.

Answer 9

spam,if you like you can send me £465 and i will check this out for you

Answer 10

This is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet. There is also an online form for the reporting of such. - (with links for your own country.) This site also gives excellent advice on what steps you can take to achieve a spam free inbox :

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/

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 11

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 12

Did you enter?

No.

It's a scam. There is no United Nations lotto.

Don't send them any personal info. Don't send money to claim your "prize". Throw that email into your recycle bin and empty it. If you have spam filters on your email use them to get rid of any more types of these emails.

Answer 13

Of course it's a fraud no one gets anything for nothing

Answer 14

Everyone gets the email...if you have to pay a fee or give your checking account info out to receive you winnings its a scam....I cannot believe people have not caught on to this now...scam scam scam!

Answer 15

It's a con delete it.

Answer 16

Most likely... YES! If you haven't entered a lottery or entered a contest to win money, you probably didn't win anything. Even if you did enter a lottery or contest they probably wouldn't send you a pathetic little e-mail to prove it, just delete the message I have gotten these e-mails before, too.

Answer 17

YES OF COURSE - AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!

Answer 18

Stupid

Answer 19

ask for your pound back!

Answer 20

Definitely a scam. I'm always receiving emails like these, block the sender and delete it.

Answer 21

Dats crazy stuff fool!

Answer 22

Ha, I ALWAYS get those emails. I got one where iwon

800,000 euro. Now, I don't even open the emails. I just delete them before I open them.



      Next time you get one email like that, DELETE IT.

  It's spam email, and if you open it, your computer ould get bad viruses.

    Happened to me before!!!

        Oh , and, I got one where it said his family died in a car accident in london area. and he's offering me 100,000 uk dollars.    He also said he's giving me the money because he's going to die in less than 2 weeks. But I don't believe any of this doorknob wierdos saying we won money. It's all FRAUD.

    Hope I helped!!!

Answer 23

yes dont do it

Answer 24

Its a total con have you not seen it lately on TV, delete the email!!!!!