We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today 25th March, 2006. Of winners of the GRAND PRIME LOTTO PROMO LOTTERY, THE UNITED KINGDOM/ INTERNATIONAL, PROGRAMS held on December 25th, 2005. Your e-mail address is attached to ticket number 023-1111-790-459; with serial number 5073-10 drew the lucky numbers 43-10-42-37-10-43, and consequently won the lottery in the 4th category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £650,000.00 British pounds sterling ($1.2million usd) ONLY in cash credited to file REF: XYL/26510460037/05. This is from total prize money of £11,050,000 BP. shared among the seventeen international winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn form 250,000,000 e-mail from Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, America, Europe, North/South America, African and Asia as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually
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It's a SCAM!!!!  Do you buy a ticket from overseas...NO!!!!\n\nThat should give you a HINT!!!!
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Heres a littlerun down on lottery scams\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\nSome times they will help you pay the fees.\nThey will give you a check (Wooooo hoooooo!!!)\nThe checks 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\nWhat is the difference between a fake cashiers check and a fake personal check?????\nA fake cashiers check looks like a real cashiers check whereas a fake personal check looks like a fake personal check.\nWhat have they got in common?\nThey are both just as easy to fake\n\n"419" scammers....dont ya love 'em\nwww.fraudwatchers.org
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it's a trick!! i get those emails all the time from freelotto!!!  you should NEVER give anyone your personal info or bank info. Sorry but all you won is the opportunity to be ripped off.
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Just watch your email, I am sure that you will be winning th overseas lottery (that you never entered) very soon and probably more than once (everyone else does).\n\nThat ought to solve your problems.
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This is a scam most likely originating in a foreign country. DO NOT reply to the email and DO NOT send them any money. A lot of these scams say you've won X amount of dollars in a foreign lottery, but require you to pay a small fee to secure the winnings. People pay the money and the crooks make off with their money. I would alert Yahoo about this.
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Please do not reply to this scam.  Unfortunately the internet seems to be the only place that an ordinary citizen comes in contact with criminals on a daily basis and everyone seems to take it casually.  Do a search on Google about lottery scams and educate yourself.  Unfortunately the local law enforcement and international law enforcement seem incapable or unwilling to track down these fraudsters and you are pretty much on your own.\n\nIf you phone there will be a "fee" or "taxes" of some sort.  You will never see that money again and for sure not any prize winnings.  Please take care of yourself and do not be so trusting of strangers.
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I searched and came up with nothing. How can they PROMISE you you'll win? Is there an address or phone number? I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't even in the US. My wife enters tons of sweepstakes but she contacts them. They don't come to her.
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Be very careful with this type of thing.  In fact, run the other direction.  Hit your delete button first.\n\nIt has been my experience that these types of "lotteries" or "lottery winning numbers" are just a con or scam!\n\nDon't give them any of your personal information, and DON'T send them ANY money!
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I couldn't find anything on it.\n\nIf you seriously won a large sum of money, your notification wouldn't come by e-mail.
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IF YOU DIDN'T ENTER A LOTTERY YOU DIDN'T WIN A LOTTERY.\n\nLegitmate lotteries don't use email to notify winners.\n\nInternational lotteries are illegal in almost every country.\n\nThe email is a common fraud.  Delete it - do not respond.
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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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It sounds like an email that you received which is a scam. You should only play the lottery if you are in the UK and you buy a lottery ticket.\n\nPaying charges is definitely a no no!\n\nIf you get emails asking you to send money, ignore all of them.\n\nTo check, pick out some of the key words or phrases in the email and search google. Then you will have a better idea who else is getting the same email and whether it's a scam
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The chance that it will be on the next draw is the same as it has always been 1/1000.  Draws are independent events and as much as our intuitive human nature tells us otherwise, a number is not "due" because it hasn't been picked in awhile.\n\nThe chance that a specific sequence wouldn't come up in 1 drawing is 999/1000.  For two drawings it is (999/1000)^2.  For 3 drawings (999/1000)^3, etc.\n\nFor 6588 drawings, the odds that it would have gone this long is (999/1000)^6588 or 0.00137226009.  This is very close to the probability that it will be drawn on the next draw (0.001).  They are both low probabilities but not out of the bounds of expectation.  If you check the draws, you'll probably find sequences of numbers that have gotten drawn more than a dozen times...\n\nI know you don't want to hear this but to end up with most likelihood of having money in the long run, the best odds are not to play at all.  The lottery odds always favor the state since the payouts average less than the expected number of tickets.  Perhaps not for a single draw, but odds will win out in the long run.
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First of all did you even enter this Lottery?? If not then its a scam if you answer it the next thing they will want your bank account details so they can transfer the so called winnings into your bank But the only that will happen is they will steal all the money from your account. Don't even answer the letter cause that will confirm your details and the scammers can do many fraudlent things with YOUR identity.\nP S its proberly a Nigerian money transfer scam
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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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I have had a few friends who have applied for this lottery, a few of them got their visas more easily because of it. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you & your family to win!\n\nGood luck!
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Are you kidding??! Of course it's not real. How can you win a lottery you never entered? Playing overseas lotteries is against the law anyway.