how real are all these bulk emails about how you have won this or that when you have never entered of them?
610306
IT'S ALL SPAM!!! Don't open them for some may contain a virus.
472189
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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If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. It sounds like a scam to me. If you had really won money from a legitimate entity, they would contact you by the phone or more likely through certified mail. DO NOT reply to this email!
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You should contact them and ask them if they will give it to you.  If they didn't give you their email address they probably don't want you to email them anything.\n\nSome companies run promotions or contests, and use the contest application as a way to gather e-mail addresses.  But nowadays most people are very sensitive about spam that they don't provide the information or the correct information.\n\nIf your customers did not ask for email or authorize you to email them, it is spam or UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail) and it is not a good thing.\n\nCapturing email addresses from the web is called "e-mail harvesting" and is a technique used by spammers to build their lists.\n\nAgain, not at all a good thing.\n\nCapturing emails from your own company website that your customer volunteered and asked to receive emails should be available in whatever database you used to collect them.
630396
I'm not waiting now, but I used to until I just gave up.  It is real, but the chances of winning are like 1 in 10 million or something crazy like that.  The chances are so slim that it does seem like a scam, even though it's not.
223285
In my maibox. I get 16-20 emails of this nature that my Spam detector shunts into  the "Bulk" maibox. When I check my mail, I simply delete the whole 00000000*&*^&#@"?!? mess of them. survey offers and all.\nYou can do it too!
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It sounds like an email that you received which is a scam. You should only play the lottery if you are in the UK and you buy a lottery ticket.\n\nPaying charges is definitely a no no!\n\nIf you get emails asking you to send money, ignore all of them.\n\nTo check, pick out some of the key words or phrases in the email and search google. Then you will have a better idea who else is getting the same email and whether it's a scam
37134
Not real! \nI also received 5 times.\nThey ask you to pay certain amount of watever .....\nThey are SPAM, Syndicate, Hacker !!!
198917
No way! My husband received a sweepstake letter from US sweepstakes about a large cash prize. He told them to take the $20 out of his winnings and mail the rest... The W-915 form looked very real but it wasn't. Bottom line- research company before sending anything and just be careful to what you respond to...hope this helps
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That is a total hoax. Please do not believe such emails.\nPlease try this webpage to give more information on hoaxes http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/\n--x--\nBeing an information technology expert I have come across all sorts of technology. However, as far as my knowledge goes, there is no technology that can track an email once it is sent out. Only in some email clients, you can request a "Read Receipt" from the recepient. That way you'll know that the email has reached the particular addressee. (just like mail confirmation with normal postal mail.) \nJust consider the normal postal mail, there is only a way to know if the addressee has received the mail or not. How would you know if the snail mail that you sent to one person has been re-sent to another person? (i might sound confusing there)\n\nPlease do not believe on such emails. They are complete hoaxes.
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If you did not enter any sweepstakes chances are it is a hoax. The other day I received an email said someones plane crashed and I was the only living family and I had 2 million coming to me, but they wanted my bank account number. I mean these are just ways to steal your money not to give you any.
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It varies depending on the company holding the contest.\nI've entered dozens of online contests and won a number of small things (make up, an address book, CDs, autographed books from an author, a food coupon for Sonic).  I have received all those things, so my experience was positive.  \nDo you recognize the name of the company offering the prize?\nDid you enter their contest?  If not, and you received an unsolicited promise of something, it's probably not legit.
728900
Mail scams unfortunately happen all the time. I get all kinds of stuff in the mail telling me i've won this and that and to send $5 or $10 for processing blah,blah,blah. I just throw it away cause i know it's bull. Be careful they send alot more of those things during the holidays.
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I received an email saying I'd won $500 and telling me to click a link to claim my prize.  When I clicked on the link the page could not be displayed.  I wrote to Yahoo! admin. to ask how to claim and I have had no response.  I seriously think it's a scam.
1005444
Hi,\n\nAs the other members are saying, it is a FRAUD used for identity theft and to earn some money.\n\nPlease read the article:\n\n"Lottery scams are one of the most common types of fraudulent email currently hitting inboxes. Be wary of unsolicited email that informs you that you have won a large sum of money in an international lottery. This is a common Internet scam. There is no lottery and no prize. Those who initiate a dialogue with the scammers by replying to the lottery scam emails will eventually be asked for advanced fees to cover expenses associated with delivery of the supposed "winnings". They may also become the victims of identity theft."\n\nI suggest you to go through the complete article here >http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery...\n\nI hope this helps.\n\n>>>Naveen Kumar
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Its a scam...and it is catching a lot of people...\nFor a write up on it go to:\nhttp://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1746&highlight=%22united+lotto%22\n.\n.\n.\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\n..\n.\n.\n.\nThe checks/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
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Yep. I have received a lot of these similar emails. \n\nThey are all SCAMS~!! trying to get your personal information, fill up some forms..etc.. Dun believe it~! or worse, click on some attachments that installs all sorts of spywares. Beware of viruses too.. \n\nIf i were you, heck~! click on the delete button straight away~!