Today I got a mail about lottery win. Is it true of fraud.?

Question

According to my mail. Yahoo award center announced that I am a winner of 500,000 GB Pound. I want to know everything about this matter. Please help me.

Answer 1

yeah i got it too delete it

Answer 2

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...

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

scam!!

Answer 4

I'll give you 500,000 quid as well. Just give me your credit card info so I can verify who you are then I'll send it to you.

Answer 5

just be careful... go with it but NEVER give them a penny or credit card #

Oh I thought it was a lottery ticket or something. Of course it's a scam... no one on the internet just gives you money.

Answer 6

if i answered every email i had like this then i would be well over a billionaire. ignore it. its a complete scam!!!

Answer 7

Fraud.

Ignore it at all costs

Answer 8

If you didn't enter anything, spam it and DON'T open it, fraud gimmick, maybe even a trojan!

Answer 9

It's a scam. I've just answered another one exactly the same as this. How can you win when you didn't enter a competition or BUY A TICKET! HELLO!!

Answer 10

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

someone else got the same thing.

SCAM

Answer 11

Fake lottery scams fall under the category of Advance Fee Fraud because, to claim the (nonexistent) money, you must pay fees in advance.

Basically, scammers harvest e-mail addresses from all over the Internet and spam in-boxes with these "You've won the lottery!" e-mails. They're scams. Period.

In the example of the fake lottery, you will usually be asked to pay a "courier fee." This can be a few hundred dollars or more. But when you wire the money (the scammers prefer Western Union or Money Gram, as it's very difficult to trace these transactions), there will be another fee, or another excuse as to why you have not yet received the check.

You'll keep sending money until you either run out of money or realize that you've been scammed. Either way, there is little that can be done to recover the cash that you've sent to these con artists. They operate all over the world, so it's not likely that your local law-enforcement division would even have jurisdiction in the case.

The safest thing to do is to simply delete the e-mails. Some of these cases are under investigation, so reporting the scammer's e-mail address to the provider, which gets the account closed, might destroy an ongoing investigation.

Any time you receive a "You've won the lottery!" type of e-mail, ask yourself these questions. They'll help you confirm that the e-mail is a scam.

One: What e-mail provider is this person using? Real lottery commissions do not use GMail, Yahoo! Mail, or other free, Web-based e-mail accounts.

Two: When did you buy the lottery ticket? If you don't play that lottery, then how can you win?

Three: Does the alleged lottery sponsor (Microsoft, Yahoo!, et cetera) have any information about this lottery on the official Web site? (Don't check whatever link that might be in the scam e-mail, as this can lead to any site. Go to the official Web site to look up information, if any exists, about this so-called lottery.)

Answer 12

Next, they'll probably ask you for identity or account info.

Lottery tickets are bearer instruments (whomever holds it can

claim it.)  How would a legitimate lottery know your email

address?  I suggest forwarding the email to Scotland Yard's

computer crimes division.  Its a common scam in every

1st world country.  Possibly terrorists trying to finance their

activities.

Answer 13

I won that one too, along with about thirty others, unless you played the "online" lottery (they dont exist) in Great Britain, how could you have won, they are just looking for suckers, either delete it or mess with them and give them bogus info and give them the run around, I just delete them

Answer 14

It is definitely a Scam, most likely there will be a catch to winning the cash that will involve you giving your time/money to them, don't fall for this.

Answer 15

SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SHALL I GO ON

Answer 16

hit the checkmark then hit spam.  i myself have won billions of different moneys this past couple of weeks. LOL

Answer 17

I win too what a coincidence where do we go to collect. I cant wait no more work yupeeeeeeeee

Answer 18

Dont be fooled. Unless you actually entered and paid for a  lottery ticket, it is fraud. Even if you did buy a ticket, they would personally contact you by telephone and send you a whole bunch of documentation and give you a check. There are so many fraudsters going round trying to get your bank details. I receive emails etc weekly saying "congratualtions, you have won $100000 dollars, to claim, send you bank details here..." They want your details so they can withdraw all your money from your account. DO NOT, under any circumstances give out any details about yourself to these people. If you truely won something, they would contact you through appropriate means. Dont get sucked in!

Answer 19

its a scam