Hello everybody, I need your help. I want you to tell me if this is a fraud or not. Maybe I'm too naive. But two days ago I received an e-mail congratulating me for being the lucky winner of the National Lottery (U.K). The e-mail says I won the lottery in the first category so I've been approved to claim the sum from the draw. "All participants for this online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly." I don't know how this works, cos' I've never played anything.
But obviously it'd be very nice to be a millionaire so I could share it with all you Queen lovers.
Please help me.
UK-LOTTO Headquarters,
The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England.
Does this really exist?
Bye.
Thank you guys! I thought this could be the case. But it's nice to dream sometimes. This is the direction where the e-mail was sent from official_lotto_results@msn.com
I have to say St. Peters Yacht Basin looks like a very beautiful place!
If I win the lottery again I will give you some money!
Bye
I get this shit all the time.....with er the Lotto, or someone with my same last name passed away, and Ii can claim the money, as long as I give them all of my bank account info....
Bogus.
You could end up making £100 of phone calls and you might only end up getting £20 ... it could also end up as an identity theft case.
Those emails are all spams / scams - be wary of them !
me too. I get hundereds of them in my other email address. arrgghh
hundreds of the same types..."I'd like you to help me...$100,000,000....give me your credit card details...blah blah blah..."
fuckin dickheads. I used to email them back giving out to them but now I don't bother with the amount I get..
LMAO! Me too Linda. I get so much crap email and snail mail telling me especially to call some long distance number to claim my winnings.
Here in the USA that's known as some big scam where you call the phone# and it switches to a ''zombie'' fake non toll free phony scam number usually in the Dominican Republic or Kenya, and you wind up with like a $1,000 charge on your phone bill.
C'mon! Would you get lottery results via an anonymous MSN mail? Especially when you didn't take part in any lottery? :-) Emails can be faked VERY easily and they can also be caught and read by a third party... so if you ever win anything, you can be assured you will NOT get info about it via email!
I don't want to offend you but people like you are very naive... and that's why spammers keep sending spam. If everybody could recognize such spam, all spammers would lose their jobs!
Leonardo Venegas wrote: Hello everybody, I need your help. I want you to tell me if this is a fraud or not. Maybe I'm too naive. But two days ago I received an e-mail congratulating me for being the lucky winner of the National Lottery (U.K). The e-mail says I won the lottery in the first category so I've been approved to claim the sum from the draw. "All participants for this online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly." I don't know how this works, cos' I've never played anything.
But obviously it'd be very nice to be a millionaire so I could share it with all you Queen lovers.
Please help me.
UK-LOTTO Headquarters,
The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England.
Does this really exist?
Bye.
No you didnt win the lottry you were about to get SCAMED LOL :P
Speaking of lotteries, I didn't win last night's Lotto 6/49 game. None of the winning numbers matched those on my ticket.
Hopefully I'll have better luck tomorrow night with the Super 7 lottery (jackpot being $10M CDN)