Can anybody help me to find out the truth about winning in this FREE LOTTO ?
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if it looks too good to be true, it is\n\nwhat they do is ask for you to pay for the special courier service to get your cheque to you and you get a choice of next day, three day or five day service and guess what???\n\nno cheque
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If you got a spam eMail anouncing you won some money then it is most likely fake, don't reply and definatly don't give out any information if you have not played on that lottery.\n\nIf the eMail looked like the one below then I'm certain it's a scam. Also what lottery lets people win who have'nt even played?\n\n FROM:THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR\n     INTERNATIONAL/PRIZE AWARD DEPT\n\nREF:PL2/209318/09\n\nBATCH:18/103/HME.\n\nAttn:Dear Sir/Madam\nWe are pleased to inform you of the result of the\nLottery Winners International programs held on the\n23/7/2004. Your e-mail address attached to ticket\nnumber 653164251591-6011 with serial number\n7321410,batch number 7151085135,lottery ref number\n6376527711 and drew lucky numbers 4-9-17-36-44-78\nwhich consequently won in the 1st category, you have\ntherefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of\nUS$1.500,000.00  (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand\nUnited States dollars)\n\nCONGRATULATIONS!!!\n\nDue to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that\nyou keep your winning information confidential until\nyour claims has been processed and your money Remitted\nto you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid\ndouble claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program\nby some participants. All participants were selected\nthrough a computer ballot system drawn from over\n40,000 company and 20,000,000 individual email\naddresses and names from all over the world. This\npromotional program takes place every year. \n\nThis lottery was promoted and sponsored by \nAssociation of software producers. we hope with part\nof your winning,you will take part in our next year\nUS$20 million international lottery. To file for your\nclaim, please contact our paying officer:\n\nContact Person:Mr.Paul Zimmerman\nTEL:+31 612 192 105\nEmail:adszix2005@yahoo.co.in\n\nRemember, all winning must be claimed not later than\n25th of February,2005. After this date all unclaimed\nfunds will be included in the next stake. Please note\nin order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications\nplease remember to quote your reference number and\nbatch numbers in all correspondence.\nFurthermore, should there be any change of address do\ninform our agent as soon as possible.\nCongratulations once more from our members of staff\nand thank you for being part of our promotional \nprogram.\nNote: \nAnybody under the age of 18 is automatically\ndisqualified.\n\nyours  Sincerely,\n\nMrs.Queensley Rhoda,\n\nFor Management.\n\n\n___________________________________________________________________________\nMail sent from WebMail service at PHP-Nuke Powered Site\n- http://blygen.net
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You are almost right...\nThe "Euro-Afro-Asia Sweepstake Lottery organization" is a real,professional,Euro-Afro-Asia,fuel-injected....scam..\nIf you search for "Euro-Afro-Asia Lottery" (in quotations) on any search engine you can see how much of a scam it is..\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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Congratulation !\nPlz be sure its not a scam.\nIf you are informed by postal mail or email and demand any fee in cash ,to be sent by western union be sure its a scam.If you live outside Canada contact Canadian embassy for detail information.Also you can search lottery scam     \non net .\nIf you need more information send me a note ,\nsome people in my community received same information of lottery.I really want to help you before losing money.
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Well, unfortunately, in order to have a good chance of winning the big prize, you'll probably have to spend more than the prize itself.  \n\nTo calculate the odds of winning, we start by finding the odds of getting one number.  In your scenario, it seems that there are 80 numbers, of which you've picked 40.  Neither the actual numbers themselves, nor the order they are selected makes any difference, since, presumably, each number has an equal chance of being picked.  For the first number, our odds are 40/80, or 1/2, since we have picked 40 numbers out of 80 total.  Not too bad, huh?\n\nWell, here's where it gets rough in a hurry.  We now need to get the second number.  The odds of us having this number have changed slightly, since one number is now off the board, to 39/79 (we have 39 numbers left, the board has 79 left).  This number must then be multiplied to the previous number, as only half of the situations have us selecting the first number correctly.  This comes out to 0.2468, or a little less than 1/4.\n\nContinuing along, each successive number has slightly decreasing odds, and must also be multiplied by the earlier odds as well.  So the odds on the third number are 40/80 * 39/79 * 38/78.  And so on, until we've calculated the odds of picking the 20th number (21/61) and multiplied it to the other 19 values.\n\nThe final value is a miniscule .00000003899, or 1 in 25.7 million.  By purchasing the second ticket, your odds increase to 2 in 25.7 million, with three tickets, the odds are 3 in 25.7 million, etc.  So to even have half a chance of winning, you will need to have a staggering 12.8 million tickets.  This may seem ridiculously high, but it's how lotteries, kenos, and other similar games of chance are able to do so well.\n\nHope this helps.
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That is a scam.\n\nThere is a National Lottery in the UK but you have to have a physical paper ticket and turn up in person with the ticket to collect your winnings.\n\nhttp://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/promotions/promotions.do?promo=commonscams\nThis type of scam is very common. Do no give them any details. Jsut delete the e-mail and ignore it.
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ask the retailer that sold you the lotto tickets. Or you can look on line for the Florida State Lottery Commission. And look at them in the morning.
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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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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!
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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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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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I am sorry to advise you it is a scam. Ask yourself. Did you buy a ticket, do you have a proof that you have a ticket with winning number? When did you go to South Africa to buy a ticket?? And they would have called you.\n\nIf you just got an email.. and they write back for more info from you.. you know you on a way to be robbed. DO NOT GIVE ANY DETAILS> No one knows who wins a LOTTO till the person with a ticket goes to the LOTTO themselves.
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Nope, the lottery is random, and doing either way of the quick pick or your favorite numbers have the same odds. Good luck winning since I never do.
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If they are asking for money for full details then it is a con. Otherwise it is just another hairbrained theory.\n\nThe odds for every draw remain approx 14 miilion to 1 for each line you purchase.\n\nit is very easy to baffle people with numbers, particularly when dealing with probabilities because what frequently seems common sense is actually wrong. \n\nFor example how many people do you need at a gathering to have a 50/50 chance that two of them will share the same birthday. Common sense would state to many that you would need about 183. However you only actually need 23.\n\nIf someone is quoting odds at you and asking for money then leave quickly.
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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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if they are harrassing you then it is almost certainly a scam-if you have won a holiday the organisers will have informed you of this and may contact you at some other time (arranged at your convenience) to make the neccessary arrangements to collect your prize. they will certainly not harrass you. so beware.
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Take your ticket to collect your winnings.\n\nOr, if you want to work it out yourself - take price and multiply by stake e.g. a £2.00 stake on a 4/1 winner would give you £10.00 return (£8.00 win + your £2.00 stake back)