Because I didn't buy a Lottery Ticket someone else won.  But what if I had bought a Lottery Ticket?
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Most likely, yes.  Unless you bought the exact same kind of ticket from the exact same role before them in the exact same store, it wouldn't throw it off at all.  The odds of one person buying a ticket and throwing off who won the lottery, let alone winning it themselves are very very slim.
698253
This is a well-known Nigerian "419" fraud. I can assure you that Camelot, sole operator of the UK lottery, does not have any free online programme, nor any prizes for those who don't buy tickets in person at a lottery sales outlet in the UK or directly from them.\n\nI have never bought a UK lottery ticket. Therefore if somebody tells me I have won the lottery I know they are lying.\n\nOur nanny, on the other hand, won GBP 1,000. She never bought another ticket after that, figuring she'd done as well as she ever would, and not wanting to give any of it back.
653346
They asked YOU to pay THEM, if it wasn't a scam they could just subtract the money from the amount you "won". Have you ever had to pay anything when you won the lottery?
518446
Lotteries are a tax on people who aren't good at math.  Lottery software is double taxation.  You can't improve your odds of winnning something based on probability, no person or software can predict the future or better your odds.  The best way to win at lotteries is to keep your money.
1089102
Did you participated in the lottery?  If not, how could you be a winner?
836540
Delete it please....It's a big scam.    The UK lottery do not have details of anyone's email address, you purchase a ticket either in a shop or online.   If you haven't entered for the UK lottery, then there's no way you could have won.    Those who reply to this scam, end up with an empty bank account - so please do not respond to them and delete any other future emails from these scammers.
804697
It's a scam.  Pay no attention to it.\nIf you didn't enter a contest or buy a lottery ticket, how do you expect to win it?
887882
Scam..\nDo you really think there is a method to picking winning lottery numbers?\nThink about it.
866375
If you have a desire to win large sums of cash, you need to buy a ticket.  Odds are you won't win, but without one, you will not win!
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Just a scam. Be smart there is not such thing as something for nothing. If you did not participate in any kind of lottery, how is it that you won? At the end they will ask you for personal information which you should never share with anybody  that you do not know.
1038023
It's impossible to know.  There is a chance, but you'll probably win the lottery first.
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Here's some signs of a lotto scam:\n\n*You never paid money or bought a ticket to enter.\n*Your "winning" notification is probably not personalized.\n*Your "winning" notification came by email, probably from a free email address such as yahoo.com or msn.com.\n\nIf you answer the email, after one or two email exchanges with the so-called "lottery officials" or "claims agent," perhaps accompianied by some official looking but fake documents, you'll be asked to pay fees for "taxes" or "handling" or some other reason. This is the scam - you pay the fees and never see any winnings, mainly because there are none to see.
637990
Don't waste your time thinking about the lottery money which you may or may not get. Go and do some useful job...okay..?
1037265
Money what is that. I have none.. But than I don't have anybody that likes me for me. Don't own anything but a pc. When I did have the $$$ everybody was coming around. So my answer why do we love money. Me myself it buys me friendship, happies, gas for my car so I can go shopping. I play the lottery. I don't want to hit it big. If I had a choice between 10 million or 1 million I take the one million. To make ME happy for the rest of my life.
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There isn't one....sadly it's a scam.\n\nIf you type in the name of the lottery in Google you will find lots of sites concerning scams that are doing the rounds...\n\nIf you get something that tells you you have won some money and you haven't entered anything.... then the chances are that it's a scam.\n\nTake a look here.....\nhttp://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/internet/lottery_operatives.shtml\n\nEDIT\nIgnore codrock....I am in the UK and there is NO lottery of this name here.....it IS a scam.....\n\nCodrock... \nIt may not be much to you but £25 is a lot of money to a lot of people.
1135510
if you participated in the dv lottery and you won they contact you.\nif they haven't, that means that you didn't win so don't even bother
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It is a scam.\nYou cannot have an international lottery as the gambleing 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\nSource(s):\n\nwww.fraudwatchers.org\nI spoke to Bill Gates lastnight and he knows nothing about it...honest...I did!\n\nEdit   Delete