is it real that i can win in australlian lottery without participating in any games or questions?
459758
how can you win something you didnt enter?! its a con!
1011847
If you did not actually enter the lottery and got an email or postal mail that you won, it's a scam. You gotta be in it to win it!\n\nNo matter how legitimate it sounds, don't fall for it. You'll probably find that before you can claim your "prize" you have to give them a "processing fee" or some such fee. When you pay the "fee" to get your money, you'll find that the company disappears.\n\nIf you still aren't convinced, then stay in contact with them. Don't give them ANY personal information-- no bank account numbers, social security numbers, not even your phone number. See how long it takes for them to ask you for money!
1051555
It doesn't.  You got something from them in an e-mail, right?\nYou won a "lottery" you didn't know you entered, right?\n\nSomeone's trying to scam ye.
589505
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
195000
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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How to win state and national lotteries.\nDo you want to win a BIG, BIG prize? Do you want to have all your financial worries sorted out? Do you want to win the lottery? The secret is very, very simple. Anybody can manage it. All you have to do is buy a ticket with the numbers that are going to be drawn at the next draw. If you do this I can GUARANTEE you will win the lottery.\n\n That's not exactly new information, is it?\n\nNeither is the idea that nobody can predict what those numbers will be. However, when a lottery machine selects the numbers this is in no sense a random action. It is 100% predictable. There is nothing stopping anybody calculating exactly which balls not only will, but MUST be drawn. Nothing stopping you. It will simply take a measuring and timing tolerance at the edge of possibility combined with a huge series of calculations.\n\nYou can measure the balls and know their properties. You can time the intervals between starting and stopping the contra-rotating tumble dryers. You can project the trajectories of every single ball and their interactions with each other. It can be done. But it would probably cost more than the size of the lottery jackpot to fund the project and nobody is going to be very happy with people standing around and timing the balls to that degree of accuracy, because one microsecond will totally disrupt all the calculations. The lottery ball machine is totally predictable and not in any way random, but exactly the same thing can be said about a woman. Both are determined and predictable systems, but they simulate randomness far more elegantly than true randomness would. True randomness is a willo-the-wisp entity, like infinity, the highest prime number and the function of half of the roundabouts in Warrington. Lottery machines are not random, but they are chaotic, and therefore, like the minds of women, very difficult to probe with the crude analytical tools we have at our disposal.\n\nSo, I can't tell you how to win the lottery. However, I can offer you some interesting advice that you might find helpful.\n\nYou have to be in it to win it\nThis is a very common slogan used by lotteries and football pools companies alike. What this slogan is saying is you can't dream of winning the lottery or the pools unless you part with your beer tokens. Of course they are right. If you never buy a ticket you can never win. But how many times do you dream of winning? Do you have to win every week to be happy? Of course not. You only have to win once. So you only have to buy one ticket, at some time in the future to be able to legitimately dream of winning a huge jackpot.\n\nOne ticket will do\nYour chance of winning a share in a big jackpot prize is very low. In the UK national lottery (now named Lotto) your chances of having a share of a top jackpot, by getting 6 balls out of 6 representing the numbers 1 to 49 are 1 in 13,983,816. \n\nNow most weeks people win, often several people share the jackpot. So it does happen. But if you staked £5 every week on those odds you would not have a realistic expectation of winning a share in a jackpot in a normal lifetime. But you knew that anyway, didn't you?\n\nSo you might as well get used to the idea that winning the lottery is unlikely. But it's also nice to have a dream, it is good for your mental health. So here is the secret: Buy a ticket. One day. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe not.
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It is absolutely real.  Here is the site:  as someone else has already warned you, be careful of scams.  Entry is free.\n\nWhile the chance of winning is small, I issue these immigrant visas every day to people who have tried as many as nine times before they won, and others who won on the first try.  Good Luck!!!!\n\nhttp://www.dvlottery.state.gov/
1014095
there is no way you would win any legal lottery without entering
471986
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!
94221
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.
278588
Forget it. Best chance you have is the lottery.
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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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What lottery did you enter?  It should state on the card/ticket how proceeds are to be delivered.  Most smaller cash amounts you can pick up where you bought the ticket.\n\nIf you did not enter a lottery, you did not win one, particularly if it is 'overseas'.  This is a common internet fraud.  You do not have to outlay any money to receive money from a legitimate lottery.
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:)) "Consolation Prize Winner "!!!!\nYou win a prize for NOT winning the lottery!!!\nScamalicious!\n\nYou will have to pay fees...the fees cannot be withdrawn from the winnings because the winnings do not exist\n\nI would be willing to bet $25,000,000 that you didnt buy a ticket.\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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This is basically a lottery scam.\nYou end up paying for the fees with a fake cashiers check.\nThese can be faked as well as a personal check but make people feel safer because they are "cashiers check"\n\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.\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\nThe 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\nwww.scamomatic.com
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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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Yes, it's a scam.\nDid you buy a  lotto ticket? Yeah, didn't think so.