lottery scams out of uk using names and emails   that dont exist?
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Try 419Scam-Fake Lottery UK Scam
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If your email is from a well known company, such as ebay, yahoo, microsoft, etc. Go directly to their website (DO NOT click any links in the email as they can mimick the actual website) and start looking around on how to report stuff like this.  Note companies call it different things but most common names are spoofs, abuse, fraud and phishing.  You can also look at sites such as www.antiphishing.org and http://www.netriplex.com/phishfraud/ here you can report what you believe to be fruads/scams also there may be info on the particular one you have recieved.  I STONGLY recommend sending any suspect stuff to these people as they work faster than the actual company to pull these nuts down.\n\nIf you have any questions please do not hesitate to keep replying to this.  I do this stuff for a living and its getting too prominant in this world.
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Never heard of them. If you got an email asking for personal details or saying a relative has left you money, or that you are owed money from a lottery win or anything like that, and they need you to send a deposit or release fee or need you bank details... ITS A SCAM. Delete the mail.
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Its a spam or worse a scam...\nThey will be looking for your personal information(its worth it to them if they can confirm that your email address works)\nOr they will ask you to pay "fees" to collect your "winnings"\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
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try www.snopes.com or www.scambusters.com, you could even try the better business bureau.  If is it s web related scam such as a phishing scam, you should report it to the people the phishers are trying to emulate, such as ebay or myspace...If it is an email scam, report it to your isp or the isp of the offending email, so that thier account can be pulled.
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well considering you email adress it not hidden on yahoo answers, some fraudulent activity may be going on in your email inbox asking to claim the prize by entering your user name and password including other personal infomation... IF SO IT IS A FAKE EMAIL AND DO NOT ANSWER IT... THen again go to the yahoo homepage and if there is a lottery  (doubt it) then access it forom ther
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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
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This is a scam, pure and simple.  There is no such lottery.  Never answer or reply to such e-mails, never give them any information.  If you want, you can forward the messages to abuse@<domain>, where <domain> is the return address listed in the message.  For instance, if it says to reply to dradobo@yahoo.com, forward the message, with the message headers, to abuse@yahoo.com.  They will investigate and usually close the account being used to receive the replies.\n\nThousands of people have lost thousands of dollars to these scams.  They tell you that you must pay all kinds of fees and taxes to collect your winnings, and when you finally wise-up and realize you are being scammed, they disappear with all your money.
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If you are asking if you have won an international lottery or some other prize you received in an email, the answer is NO.\n\nIf you didn't enter a lottery, or a contest, then you did not win one.\n\nDo not reply to the sender and do not send them any personal or banking information
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It's one of the many e-mail lottery scams.
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I got an email like this that was a scam. If you win a lottery they will not contact you like that. You can report the site but I can't remember the site I reported mine to but just type in scam lotteries and you will be directed to many sites. Just give them all the info you can.  Be carefull of your email.
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Yes, it's a scam.\nDid you buy a  lotto ticket? Yeah, didn't think so.
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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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There isn't one...it's a scam!\nIf you don't believe me take a look here, it's the National Lottery homesite,\n\nhttp://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/home/home.do\n\nYou could just type MS_Word lottery UK into a search engine and you will soon find out if it's a scam or not.
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Report a fraudulent email\nNigerian 419 Scam letters, Lottery emails, Phishing emails and other fraudulent emails should be forwarded to our Investigation Team at:\n\nscams@fraudwatchinternational (add .com to the end)
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It is a scam.\n"34 678 248 946" is a untracable mobile phone(vodafone)\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.\nIf you want to check a email you think might be a scam go to www.scamomatic.com\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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Did you buy a lottery ticket?\nIf not this is a scam. I get about five per day.\nJust delete it and ignore it..\n\nwww.fraudaid.com/ScamSpam/Lottery/lottery_scam_names.htm \n\nwww.scambuster419.co.uk/lottery.htm\nantivirus.about.com/cs/hoaxes/p/lottery.htm\nwww.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/lotterywin.htm