Has Bill Gates sponsored a lottery with Australian On-line Lottery in March?
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I have "won" over 100 million dollars in different on-line lotteries.  I don't bother to investigate them.  The odds that they aren't scams are so low that I don't waste time on them.
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Lotterys 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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Its a scam!\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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Yes, it's a scam.\nDid you buy a  lotto ticket? Yeah, didn't think so.
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In Tamil Nadu the Lottery was totally banned so dont try here Please try U R luck somewhere
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Appears not.\n\nhttp://ctx.us/CTCPA/canadianlotteryscam.html\n\nI'm Canadian, and I know that each province controls its own lotteries, so you have the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, etc. There's no national organization by that name, to the best of my knowledge.
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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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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 you're talking about the Visa Diversity Lottery Program, it does exist.  There's no way of knowing ahead of time if you'll be chosen.  Fortunately, it doesn't cost unless you win.\n\nBest of luck.
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Unfortunately, NO.  If any body claims it's a free lottery, beware of frauds. I refer a site for your info: fraudwatch.com . Browse this site for extra info.  Goodluck
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http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2005-38,GGLR:en&q=buy+online+US+powerball+and+Mega+Million+tickets+below+2%24
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I hope you didn't get scammed by someone telling you that you won a lottery or something...
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lottery.ok.gov I live here...
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Bill Gates and Microsoft.
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absolutely.  "Odds of winning" is based on how many tickets are sold.
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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.