Is it possible to win the lottery over the internet even if u never signed up?

Question

UK National Lottery, Liverpool

P O Box 1010 L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM

WINNING PARAMETERS

RaffleDrawWinning Email:

Congratulations Lucky Winner,

On Behalf of the Screening Committee of United Kingdom National Lottery, I wish to formally inform you that you have successfully passed the Email Screening and Verification Matching Test conducted for all online winners in your winning in accordance with the United Kingdom National Lottery Terms and Conditions. Hence you are therefore cleared for payment by the verifications and fund release department at the United Kingdom National Lottery Headquarters and your winnings has been duly signed and approved for release to you by the legal attorney to the United Kingdom National Lottery.

Your approved winning Certificate number is

Your winning Transfer Identification code is

As you already know, all winners for the online version of the United Kingdom National Lottery Online promotions were selected through a computer ball

Answer 1

thats a scam for sure..you cant win something that you didn't sign up for..trash it.

Answer 2

No it is not possible to win a lottery if you haven't participated.  This is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them :

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/sw...

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. 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 3

No, it is a scam.

Answer 4

This is a scam! If you respond, the scammers will tell you that you need to pay "taxes" on the sweepstakes or lottery winning before you can claim your prize. If you send them any money, you will never hear from them again.

Flag the message as spam or delete it. Do not reply.

I doubt if this message was sent by a stalker as this scam is a widespread phenomenon. I've gotten "You Won!" messages myself.

Answer 5

No, it's a phishing scam, we got a smilar one that wanted us to send them money first. They seem to be sending these out more and more.

Answer 6

No, don't give them any of you info. There are cyber crimes going on as they ask you to send money to get money they say you wom. You got to be in it to win it!

Answer 7

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 8

sounds like a scam. they'll probly ask for your bank account info and stuff or give you viruses

Answer 9

It's probably just a random spammer trying to get you to give up your bank account information or cash a bad check.

If you didn't enter, you cannot win.