I RECIVED A CHEK FROM UNITED BRITISH LOTTO CERTIFICATE OF AWARD:THIS TO CERTIFY THAT:MY NAME I WON THE AMOUT OF $95,000.OO. IS THIS REAL.PLEASE I HAVTO KNOW IF THIS IS FOR REAL,ANY ONE OUT THEAR TELL ME SOMTHIG ABOU THIS.AND WHAT I HAVE TO DO IN CASE IF IS NO'T REAL.
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Listen, I received a check a couple of days ago too. I took it to a check cashing place and asked them if it was a real check and they said yes and cashed it for me. However I didn't understand the letter very well. I called the number several times with no answer. Finally the next day I called again and a man answered with an accent and told me to go cash the check and call him back and he would tell me the next step to take.  I was scared so I notified a friend of mine in Canada and he told me that it is a scam. Now I'm not sure what to do...
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I am not sure if it is a fishing page, but the name should give a clue to anyone that it is not legit.  If it were free lotto, then why would you have to pay to play? I tend to stay away from too good to be true web pages, just like the mail we used to get, if it is too good to be true, then it probably is.
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Its almost certainly a scam.  What they will probably do is pay you more than the item is worth, and ask you to send some of the money back (to cover shipping or something along those lines).  By they time their Money Order is discovered to be fraudulent, they have your item and your "refund" money.  And you get stuck paying the returned check fees at your bank as well.  Tell them that you only take Paypal and see if they send you any $$.
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I received a letter from this group stating that I won an award, I threw it in the trash and started investigating. It is a fraudulent organization. Also, be aware that a letter is being circulated in which a person posing as an artist is looking for someone to open an account in their country in order to accept money orders and send the cash to them in the Netherlands. Don't fall for this ploy. A lady accepted a large sum of money in the form of Money Orders from a person who wanted to move to the U. S. The person, a few days later, wanted her to send two thousand dollars to him, stating that it was an emergency, \nshe sent the money only to find out that the money orders had been stolen and she was out two thousand dollars and had a visit from the authorities. Let's use our smarts in these situations.
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Why would you have to send them money for them to send you money. They way the lottery works is you give them money in advance if you are chosen then they give you money. It's nothing like you've but we need more money from you. This is definitely a scam please do not send these people or anyone you do not know money.
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Sithy\n\nIt's on Challenge TV 9.55pm  , however the following maybe of interest to you.\n\nA massive £120 million EuroMillions jackpot must be paid out after this week's draw, the lottery operator said. Camelot predicts sales will soar by 650 per cent on a normal week as players rush for tickets. \n\nThe top prize will be the biggest ever lottery payout if a single winner hits the jackpot in Friday night's draw. \n\nIf no players win, then the prize will be shared out among winners in the next level of the draw. EuroMillions rules state that jackpots can only roll a maximum of 11 times and must be won on the 12th week. The odds of hitting the jackpot are just over 76 million to one, Camelot said. \n\nIf the top prize goes unclaimed, then players have a 5.5 million to one chance of winning a slice of it in the next level of the draw, by matching five main numbers and one Lucky Star number. \n\nA National Lottery spokesman said: "This Friday, because the massive prize has to be won, we're predicting a huge sales rush, causing ticket sales to be up more than 650 per cent on a normal base week." \n\nThis series of EuroMillions roll-overs will have generated an estimated £45 million for UK good causes by the end of this week. To hit the £120 million jackpot, players must match all five main numbers and two Lucky Star numbers. \n\nBigger lottery jackpots have been previously offered in the US but the winners opted to receive smaller amounts in one-off payments instead of the full payment over time. \n\nGood Luck!
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RIP-OFF!  Delete them, run away from the computer.\n\nFirst off, you should never have to pay to get a job (unless you pay a recruiter to do it, then it is generally for high-level executives).\n\nAward Notification emails are scams.  Pay me $2,500 and give me your bank account number and I will deposit $4 million in there. . . Read the email, carefully.  How many misspellings are there?  You will have to look close, some are very clever.  Also look where it is coming from.  Most will be outside the US.  It is illegal for a US citizen to participate in a foreign lottery (playing scratch-off or something while in Europe or Canada is illegal, but "o.k.").\n\nalso, did you get the one from South Africa?  Their office is in London and they pay out 25 million Euro's.  South Africa doesn't use the Euro, and as of last year, neither does England (though I think that is going to change fairly soon if it hasn't already).\n\nHope this helps.
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Sounds very much like a typical advance fee fraud - you'll be asked for endless processing fees (why can't they pay them out of the prize?) for something that never comes.\n\nIf Microsoft (or the company of the week that's being spoofed) really was offering a big cash prize, it would be heavily advertised. It isn't, so the prize must be fake.
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When did you enter this Lottery?\nBy responding you have let them know they have an Active E-Mail Account, you may win many Lotteries now.\nWhat you want to do now; You may want to watch for money to disappear from your Bank Account. Keep an eye on your Credit, if you gave them enough information, they can now get a Credit Card in your name. That about all I know you can do now. Good Luck.\nIn the Future never respond to Lotteries you never entered.
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More than likely not.  Did you enter into any lottery?  It's a scam, stay away from it.
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It's a scam I get e-mails all the time stating I won the Nigerian lottery, The Canadian lottery etc.. Do not repeat do not give them you company's foreign account number they will wipe that account out. If you won a lottery you don't need to send any money to collect the winnings the tax money will be taken out of the winnings.
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If they sent you an email out of the blue, it's a scam. It's very easy for a scammer to duplicate or forge company logos so you should not trust that! A good rule of thumb for any email offers you get, especially lotteries and anything that promises you money, is if you did not ask for the offer, it's junk.
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Electron is a legal company but they do not sponser lotteries..Lotteries are paid for by the purchase of lottery tickets.\nIf you receive an email that you have won a lottery ...then it is a scam.\n\nYou cannot have an international lottery as the gambling laws differ in every country.\nThe scammers say it is "International" so as to cover every country.\nLotterys work like this:\n1)10,000 people pay 1 dollar/euro/pound/yen....etc\nThe lottery company now has 10,000\n\n2) the lottery company holds a draw and gives out 7,000 in winnings (and keeps the profit 3,000)\n\nScams work like this:\n-1)nobody pays money (there is no money to win)\n\n0)a scammer sends out 10,000 spam emails to tell people they have won a lottery they havn't entered.(they pretend they work for real lottery websites)\n\n2)The Scammer asks for your Personal details (be prepared! your inbox is going to be full of emails asking for you personally...and dont get me started on what they are gonna do with your Bank details!)\n\n3)The scammer tells you that you have to pay fees before you can accept the "winnings" (and NO,you cant pay out of the winnings! they dont exist!....silly maga)\n\n4)The scammer manages to con 3 people out of 1000 and gives all his profits to a charity for orphaned goats (he dosn't really...he keeps it ;) )\n\n5)Your inbox gets more mails than help@microsoft.com\nEverything from "You have won anotther sooperdooperlottry" to "CHAN U B A NEXT OF KIN" to "Please join our company,cash our checks,send us the money until your bank realises you are laundering money for us?)\n\nThe moral of the story is...If it sounds too good to be true... It probably is
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This sounds like a scam, sorry.  I think you've been duped.  First link is to the bank-job scam on SNOPES; second is to the Nigerian con, cuz it's so prevalent.  Could be a spin on these that you're in, I'm thinking.
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These West African get these addresses copy & pasted from a whole variety of free email sites as yahoo, hotmail, msn, etc.\n\nBy experience, I should say, that they surprised me with a letter of a supposed inheritance or lotto won.  All with the trick of getting advance fees from you. I became victim from them and never got the supposed inheritance. Note that they try to seem as real as posssible.\n\nJust Go to yahoo Options, click on filters, and write the clue words that u would find in letters that come from them.\nAlso, I have been forwarding these letters to the FTC at spam@uce.gov & 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov
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Its a scam...and it is catching a lot of people...\nFor a write up on it go to:\nhttp://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1746&highlight=%22united+lotto%22\n.\n.\n.\n.\nLotterys work like this:\n1)10,000 people pay 1 dollar/euro/pound/yen....etc\nThe lottery company now has 10,000\n\n2) the lottery company holds a draw and gives out 7,000 in winnings (and keeps the profit 3,000)\n\nScams work like this:\n-1)nobody pays money (there is no money to win)\n\n0)a scammer sends out 10,000 spam emails to tell people they have won a lottery they havn't entered.(they pretend they work for real lottery websites)\n\n2)The Scammer asks for your Personal details (be prepared! your inbox is going to be full of emails asking for you personally...and dont get me started on what they are gonna do with your Bank details!)\n\n3)The scammer tells you that you have to pay fees before you can accept the "winnings" (and NO,you cant pay out of the winnings! they dont exist!....silly maga)\n\n4)The scammer manages to con 3 people out of 1000 and gives all his profits to a charity for orphaned goats (he dosn't really...he keeps it ;) )\n\n5)Your inbox gets more mails than help@microsoft.com\nEverything from "You have won anotther sooperdooperlottry" to    "CHAN U B A NEXT OF KIN" to "Please join our company,cash our checks,send us the money until your bank realises you are laundering money for us?)\n\nThe moral of the story is...If it sounds too good to be true... It probably is\n..\n.\n.\n.\nThe checks/money orders will be fake....very good fakes.\nYou can hand them to a 25yr old bank teller and they wont know the difference.\nThe checks go in your account.\nYour bank "HONOURS" the checks\nYou send the money to the scammer in Nigeria\nThe bank sends the check back to the issuing bank (can take up to 6 months)\nThe Issueing bank refuses to "CLEAR" the check.\nYour bank says"Hey...you put in a fake check ....wheres the money?"\nYou say" I sent it to [insert scammers name here] by western union money transfer(untracable) to that lovely man/woman/both in Nigeria"\nThe bank says"??? you robbed your own bank???"\nYou plead Ignorance..."Im innocent" etc\nThey say "But YOU put the check in our bank...." and you do jail time for bank fraud\n\n"419" scammers....dont ya love 'em\nwww.fraudwatchers.org
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Congratulation !\nPlz be sure its not a scam.\nIf you are informed by postal mail or email and demand any fee in cash ,to be sent by western union be sure its a scam.If you live outside Canada contact Canadian embassy for detail information.Also you can search lottery scam     \non net .\nIf you need more information send me a note ,\nsome people in my community received same information of lottery.I really want to help you before losing money.