how many of you have had a email saying you have won uk lotto?
May.08, 2010 in
Fraud
please dont answer it as its not real.my brother in law is a cop in the uk and said they are frauds.BEWARE
yes also got email that someone left me money in the uk and i live in the us strange
May 8th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
my dad got one but just ignored it. he deleted it too i think. he gets lots of junk mail
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May 8th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
I have but deleted it right away, same goes for some guy dieing and me being the beneficury.
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May 8th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
There seems to be lots of scam emails doing the rounds which tell you that you have won a jackpot prize in a fake lottery.
You’ll find links to examples of these emails (below) published without the writers’ permission, in the hope that awareness will, somewhere along the line, save somebody from being parted with their savings. Users who responded to their emails have been asked to send sums such as £7,000 or €5,625 as a “service fee” to receive their ‘winnings’. If you pay that money you then receive another letter, claiming to be from the Gaming Board of Great Britain, and with a forged signature of a board member, asking for €20,000.
So far, at least 10,000 people have lost their money – please don’t let the next one be you!!
On a serious side, many people are asking us what can be done about this. The sad fact is that there are so many scams that the authorities can not chase them all. The Metropolitan Police have established a resource to assist in combating specific types of high value fraud, which include a contact email address. The OFT uncovered 15 call centres in Canada solely targeting the UK, one of which is known to have conned British victims out of £600,000.
If you receive any of the emails or direct mailings mentioned below, we recommend that you delete them and make your friends and colleagues aware of their existence. Do NOT reply to them and DO NOT complete their online claim forms.
NOTE: the actual text of emails varies, as do the so-called ‘winning numbers’, the prize values and name of companies involved. Some variations ask you to complete an emailed or online claim form at a url like “linkfinanceandtrustltd.com” which forwards to anonymous pages on MSN. Others ask you to fill the form in and fax it to them. DO NOT complete the form as you will be giving away personal information to the scamsters.
As a somewhat humorous aside, we received one of these emails addressed to “Dear Sales” (email address: sales@lottery) informing us that we were one of six lucky winners of £2.5 million. The scammer had, however, used CC in their email instead of BCC and you could see that the same email had been sent to several hundred people all with email addresses beginning with the letter “s”!
http://www.lottery.co.uk/html/scamtop.htm
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May 8th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
My daughter in law got one, but she knew it was too good to be true so she didn’t fall for it.
http://www.lottery.co.uk/html/scamtop.htm
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May 9th, 2010 at 12:50 am
do you think i am a lucky man
http://www.lottery.co.uk/html/scamtop.htm
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May 9th, 2010 at 3:46 am
I wish I did I want to move there. No I come from Massachusetts. They didn’t reach me yet.
http://www.lottery.co.uk/html/scamtop.htm
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May 9th, 2010 at 7:38 am
i had a down under one is that a faurd
http://www.lottery.co.uk/html/scamtop.htm
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May 9th, 2010 at 10:39 am
HELLO ! I’ve been getting this particular UK LOTTO WINNER (based upon my email being selected — yeah, RIGHT !) email for about three or four months. I stupidly opened one of these SPAM EMAILS about six months ago, and ever since then I’ve received a FLOOD –and I DO MEAN “FLOOD” — of OTHER “You’ve WON THIS LOTTO OR THAT LOTTO” !
I IMMEDIATELY PUT THEM ON SPAM and get rid of them. Also, I get emails “ANNOUNCING” that someone in AFRICA OR SOME OTHER PLACE HAD DIED IN AN ACCIDENT AND LEFT AN ESTATE FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS (or even a few million) and that IF I’D GIVE THEM MY PERSONAL INFORMATION (WHICH YOU SHOULD NEVER – NEVER – NEVER DO !), we could “split” the winnings. STRAIGHT TO SPAM BUTTON !!
I don’t know why I have continued to get these ANNOYING EMAILS, but DO NOT OPEN THEM, SIMPLY CHECK-MARK “SPAM” and be rid of them PRONTO !!! Lately, they’ve been winding down to just one or two A DAY — but even that’s still ONE TOO MANY !!
REMEMBER: NEVER OPEN THESE UP ! SIMPLY MARK “SPAM” and be RID OF THEM ! You don’t know if they also have a VIRUS IN THEM . The same goes for all other UNKNOWN EMAILS YOU GET FROM PEOPLE OR BUSINESSES YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH — HIT “SPAM” and save yourself a lot of HEADACHES !!
Yahooo email guidelines (for one)
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