How can I get authenticity of my prize winning information that i received by e-mail from south africa?
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scam. Go to www.snopes.com for more information
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if they are harrassing you then it is almost certainly a scam-if you have won a holiday the organisers will have informed you of this and may contact you at some other time (arranged at your convenience) to make the neccessary arrangements to collect your prize. they will certainly not harrass you. so beware.
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No. If you reply they will ask you for a processing fee, or government tax, or some such. If you send them money you will never see your "Winnings".\n\nMy e-mail address has been public for 7 years. I'm on lots of spam lists. I get 2 - 4 "You have won" e-mail messages a day.
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Use this link below to the royal mail site\n\nhttp://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=400036&mediaId=400347\n\nSORRY IGNORE THE ANSWER...I THOUGHT IT WAS FROM UK TO LATVIA
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If online, Checks in the Mail.\nwww.checksinthemail.com
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i see no real use on this site, they confirm the  mail you sent \n\ndont waste your money on this ... if you got something really important use snail mail to get confirmation
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In romance scams a person outside the US will sometimes email a scanned image of a visa in a passport to show they are about to come to see the other person (and then ask for cash for the ticket or other expenses, to be wired by untraceable Western Union money transfer).\n\nThe surest way to check the visa is to show it to the INS, but often you can tell by yourself. Here are the two most common red flags to watch out for:\n\n1) Some text on the visa is slightly fuzzy while other text is sharp. That means it was scanned and then edited on a computer.\n\n2) Some parts of the visa are at an angle while others are straight. The straight part was changed on a computer while the angled part is original.\n\nMy general advice when dealing with people in Nigeria who you don't know personally is to assume a scam until you can prove otherwise. There are simply too many scammers there to safely proceed any other way.
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look in ebay after people win its.
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As an American citizen, you can not win an "International Lotto." It is a scam! Delete the email and/or mark it as Spam
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it does not look like a legitimate email...do not send sensitive information thru it... visit the http://www.cic.gc.ca/ website for accurate information....
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Probably not, there are lots of e-mail scams that want to steal your identity information and bank accounts.\n\nIf you did not buy a ticket in a lottery, you cannot possibly have won it.\n\nIf you DID buy a ticket before in the lottery, the ticket should have information on how to redeem a winning ticket.\n\nThere is a known E.A.A.S. lottery scam running around, check this link to see if it is the same one as you have received or very similar:\nhttp://www.xzone-radio.com/ripoffs_scams/eaaslottery.htm\n\nThe easy way to check these out is to just go to the main Yahoo page at http://www.yahoo.com and type a basic description into the search box (I just typed "E.A.A.S. Lottery Headquarters" in and it returned that fraud alert website).
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My husband got a letter from the Spanish Lotto Commission, saying he won... and oh by the way, please mail passport number and bank account number.  Yeah, right.  I shredded the darn thing.
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NO it doesn't look authentic. It doesnt even have shopping option plus they havnt given any contact info..\nAt the most we can find out the country where the wensite is hosted.. but that is not going to help much.\n\nOne thing that you can do is.. send out mails randomly to email addresses like\n\nadmin@cairnsgreenlizard.com\ninfo@cairnsgreenlizard.com\ncairns@cairnsgreenlizard.com\ncairnsgreenlizard@cairnsgreenlizard.com\n...etc.\n\nu might just hit the nail on the head.
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It is a scam. If you receive emails that might be scams the best way to check is perform a search for the subject with the word "scam" or "warning"
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If you get an email from, say, stranger@yahoo.com - then your best chance of finding SOME further info might be to enter http://profiles.yahoo.com/stranger into your browser.\n\nBut remember, any email in that sort of format is NOT "from Yahoo", by which I mean it is never a direct communication from Yahoo to you - it is simply from a USER of Yahoo, just like you and I are.\n\nSo IF such an email tells you you've just won $10000 in the Yahoo Lottery, or that Yahoo is going to CHARGE for all its products starying next month, or ANY such thing - TREAT IT AS GARBAGE.  HOAX.\n\nThat is NOT how the real Yahoo communicates.
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Basically any lottery with the word "International" or "Global" in it is a scam.\n\nLegitimate lotteries only operate within the particular territory they are licensed for (e.g. California, UK). They do *not* operate internationally or they would risk falling afoul of anti-gambling laws. For example, it is against US Federal Law to mail lottery tickets or money to purchase lottery tickets in interstate mail. US lottery winners have been prevented from claiming prizes for out of state lotteries.\n\nBecause of this you can safely assume any "international" lottery winning notice to be a scam. Most of the fake lottery scams are run by gangs from Nigeria. The fake lottery scam is a variant of the "419" scam. \n\nThis email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:\n\nThey don't notify winners by email. \nYou can't win without first buying a lottery ticket. \nThey don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to. \nThey don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you. \nThey don't tell you to call a mobile phone number. \nThey don't tell you to keep your winnings secret. \nThey will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
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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