Comments on: Has anyone received an email stating that they won money from UK lottery intl. Is this a scam?

By: bob N

bob N — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:48:54 +0000

No, it’s not a scam. People give strangers millions of dollars and euros and pounds and francs everyday, and thousands more people win sweepstakes they never even entered! It’s true! And even more surprising, there are hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away in Nigeria, just waiting for an honest person to help spirit it out of the country via an electronic bank transfer. Wake up! Geeze, surely you can’t be so stupid as to acutally believe you won 5 million euros from a sweepstake you never entered, can you?

By: ScorpiaX

ScorpiaX — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:58:35 +0000

As above mentioned, additionally, if you have to ask, than its a scam (that’s it, bam) obviously.

By: Ally

Ally — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:51:45 +0000

like they said if something is too good to be true then it is..and one more very important thing..dont open emails unless you know the person or you are waiting for a business,etc. I know alot are tempting but thats the way you get more spam, viruses and trojans slip thru. Look on prefernces and set your spam protection filter.

By: pat c

pat c — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:39:01 +0000

I have had alot of them in my e-mail, scams they want u to send money to get money don’t fall for it lol

By: John P

John P — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:02:16 +0000

you cant win what you didnt enter for, therefore major scam, most (if not all) of these are scams

By: Mike M

Mike M — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:02:16 +0000

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By: w1nstrel

w1nstrel — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:30:41 +0000

Here are a few tips in figuring out if email messages like these are a scam:

* Were you expecting a message from this source? For example, did you purchase lottery tickets from this place _and_ give them your email address?

* How did they know to contact you at this address anyway? For the lottery example, _you_ usually have to contact the lottery company when you have won, because you’re the only one who knows that you have the winning numbers (not the other way around). For random drawings and such, you have to enter to win–so do you remember entering?

* Did they even get your name right? A lot of “spam scam” messages says things like “Your email address has won!”–but you of course understand that “email addresses” don’t win anything, people do.

* Lastly, remember that Google is your friend. Don’t know much about the “EURO Millions Lottery”, eh? Type it into Google and see what comes up… You’ll see that it’s a numbers-pick game in the UK which, in general, you have to watch to see if your numbers are picked (however, you can play online now and be notified that way, but I’m betting you didn’t do that). And by the way, the official spelling is “EuroMillions”, not “EURO Millions”.

So… in conclusion, my money says you haven’t been playing EuroMillotter.com online and gotten a real win notification from them, but that this is a scam. And hopefully those tips will help you sort through the spam in the future, too.

By: sec-c-1

sec-c-1 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:09:20 +0000

Yes i have and yes it is!

By: SKJA

SKJA — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:36:33 +0000

its a scam.

camelot will only send u an email saying there is “news about your ticket” only if you subscribe online. They will never ask you for any details in the email either and will direct you to their own site to sign into your account and check your ticket. However to protect yourself never click on any link in an email, your best bet is to open a new internet page and type the url of the homepage yourself.

By: eddie

eddie — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:38:29 +0000

Yes
I tryed
Found I must be A dumbass