South african lottery

Question

Is there a south african lottery because they e-mailed me that I won money? Is this for real or not?

Answer 1

Never heard of it...scam

Answer 2

No such thing as African lottery, these emails stating you have won this or that lottery are all SCAMS. 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.)

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/id...

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...

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.

Check out these sites for further information :

http://www.scambusters.com

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

Answer 3

if you haven't played it then it is not for real and therefor its a SCAM!

you should report it