I received an e-mail saying that I won several thousand dollars in a Feb. 17 monthly UK lottery promo. I never entered a UK lottery. They asked for my name, address, age, sex, occupation, phone number, country of residence and e-mail address. They do not ask for any bank or checking account number. There is a contact e-mail address to respond to. Can this possibly be legitimate?
Crystal
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Yeah, that’s it, somebody entered you in a lottery for the fun of it.
Don’t worry, the request for your personal info will come later. Of course it’s a scam.
Think! Did you enter a lottery? Probably not.
IT’S A SCAM!!!! DELETE IT! The subject line should have been enough to keep you from even opening that email.
Definitely a scam. If you never entered it, how is it possible that you won it? Way too many people fall for these scams.
I got over ten of them this past week – from Africa, the UK, and other places – what a bunch of bunk. Asking for personal information is such a scam. Have a healthy and happy leap year!
How can you win a lottery, especially a monthly lottery, that you do not remember entering? I’ve gotten the same email as well.
Before getting rid of those types of emails, send it to the Federal Trade Commission. Those types of emails are labeled as deceptive, fraudulent, and misleading. And the FTC wants those to record and identify them so they can take action upon the sender and/or senders.
Forward it to the FTC at:
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This is one of the many scams going around the internet. Best thing is to click the spam button whenever you get one of those. NEVER reply or respond to them.
It’s a scam, so don’t respond back to the phishers in charge of this nonsense. Just do yourself a favor and give the message the well-deserved spam “heave-ho” into the garbage. You’ll never get anything out of this “bogus” lottery.
yes this is a hoax,there is no such thing as the yahoo lottery draw/ awards center or any way to win or make money from them, there is also no other email lottery or draws
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its just a phishing scam to get your personal & financial details so they can commit Identity & financial crimes on their victims
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-Jake
Yeah, that’s it. Send them all your personal information and watch your bank account be drained. Duuuh! This question is asked every day, over and over and over. Doesn’t anyone read the questions first? THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A UK LOTTERY. OR A YAHOO LOTTERY. OR MSN. OR MICROSOFT. OR……………..
There is no free money.
This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various email scams hitting the internet and how to report them :
Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.
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