HELP.I received an email stating that i have won a certain amount of prize money..?
597733
yeah these are just scamming emails trying to get as much money out of u as possible. \nif you google for 419 emails. this will show you what really is going on with these scammers normally from lagos nigera. etc
908213
Remember this if it sounds to good to be true it is a hoax.  It is called spamming.  These are not legit emails.  Someone just trying to get someones hopes up.  Just like the emails that go around that say if you send this email out to 8 friends your wishes will come true.  It doesn't work that way.
126816
I followed all the procedures to get this prize. I sent a donation of $475 to Nigeria as they directed me to do so. However, i didn't recieve my prize till now. Who can help us? YAHOO staff, plese reply us is it from your side and you are going to send the money or not?!?!?!?!!
306253
May 1,2006\nI also received a similar letter and am wondering the same thing.  I did call however and spoke with a rep.  She told me that I should deposit the check, and then call her back and she would give me the information on who I should contact to claim my "prize".  I have yet to take any further action.  I am curious to see how many people have received this letter and where they all live.  I live in Atlanta.  If any one else has any more information please post it!\n\nMay 2, 2006\nI called a local consumer advocate number and they recommend that I shred the check. That even though the check looks real and that in three days the funds may appear in my account but the check actually takes up to a week to completely to go through, and since the dead line to complete the transaction is May 5 by Monday they will have cashed the cashiers check and their check from J P Morgan will have bounced. Kristi please let us know what happened.
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.
30644
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.
839817
the whole process takes about 5 months before you see your prize, so don't expect it to come before christmas...\nY! will email you confirming your information and then the prize will be shipped out...but again, this takes a while from the end of the season..the prizes are made new each year, which causes the delay...and it will be either a t-shirt or plaque, depending on what you chose at the beginning of the season...\ncongrats on the win, though.\n-nny
9069
It's a scam to get you to send a huge amount of money to have the winnings shipped to you and they collect your personal info and use it. My mom had that show up in her e-mail. It's a scam sorry.
624397
sounds like a joke email?\ni dont know?
502264
This is a classic scam.  It's known as an advanced fee fraud.\n\nThe way it works is they send you a letter/email or phone you and say you've won a competition or lottery.  You're due a huge cash payout!! (with the exclamation marks and everything).  There is a fly in the ointment however as you have to pay a small handling fee/fedex charge/local tax.  It's never that onerous, although inexplicably it can't be paid out of your winnings.  You send your money through to them and they vanish.\n\nThe key questions to ask yourself are \n1)  Did I ever enter an online International Lottery?\n2)  Why can't the fee be paid out of the winnings?  Better yet have them pay the fee and keep 10% say as a 'handling charge' and send you the rest (it's still over 200k).  I bet they won't do it.\n\nSeriously though, if you have sent them money it's probably gone forever.  Your national law enforcement agency will probably be interested in this and you should probably let them know.\n\nIf you haven't sent them any money, great, keep your money in your pocket.
243442
Thats almost certainly a scam. Its a common scam where people say "oh your reletive has left you lots of money, please send some money to cover xyz costs or give us your bank details"\n\nNever give out your personal details from unsolicited emails like that. Just delete it.
102271
RIP-OFF!  Delete them, run away from the computer.\n\nFirst off, you should never have to pay to get a job (unless you pay a recruiter to do it, then it is generally for high-level executives).\n\nAward Notification emails are scams.  Pay me $2,500 and give me your bank account number and I will deposit $4 million in there. . . Read the email, carefully.  How many misspellings are there?  You will have to look close, some are very clever.  Also look where it is coming from.  Most will be outside the US.  It is illegal for a US citizen to participate in a foreign lottery (playing scratch-off or something while in Europe or Canada is illegal, but "o.k.").\n\nalso, did you get the one from South Africa?  Their office is in London and they pay out 25 million Euro's.  South Africa doesn't use the Euro, and as of last year, neither does England (though I think that is going to change fairly soon if it hasn't already).\n\nHope this helps.
160391
You would need to provide more information if you want an answer ... like the name of the bank or anything specific?\n\nAnyway, it sounds like a scam, especially if the notice came by email.  Unless you entered a lottery, you didn't win one.  \n\nCall the bank and ask them.  Just don't give out any personal information unless you really know who you are talking to and dealing with.
62540
It's a scam. Especially if it is from an e-mail on the internet and it is a foreign lottery.
220562
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
253335
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.
13050
Unless you personally bought a ticket and were sent something showing that those numbers won, then for the Love of God, delete the email and block the sender.\n\nYou are being scammed.