i recd mail tht i have won million dollars in loto

India
June 8, 2007 6:43am CST
the mail said i am qualified and selected for receiving 1 million dollars, i was shocked and wondered how they got my id, when i replied they said i am going to receive and i'll have to deposit 1000 first for processing, i smelt fishy so stopped and put up the mail in spam, but still the mail comes from different id/s. have u any experience like this to showcase frauds and spams, discuss here
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27 responses
@obukohwo (301)
• Nigeria
8 Jun 07
This is a common fraudulent pratice via the internet. They come up to say that you won in the recent draw and that you should try to fast as possible to contact them for your price money. Friend please ignor this approach and do to pay any attension to such mails again. They are scam mails or better still just watch out they will ask you to send the money first before your gift. Tell them if you must to do the fees for you and that you will pay them the money after receiving your price money. Cheers
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• India
8 Jun 07
thts a good idea anyway i dont want any easy money like tht i would like to earn my money with sel esteem.
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• India
12 Jun 07
and he has worked for it,thts also true
@obukohwo (301)
• Nigeria
8 Jun 07
You got the picture now, just stay away from people asking you to make money in a flash. Every responsible wealthy man must have to account for his or her wealth. Dont you think so?
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@gasmas100 (585)
• India
8 Jun 07
ive received tions of those mails in the past, some from a self-proclaimed exiled PM of Sierra Leone, some form the exiled ex-Chief Naval office fom Senegal and so on.........just ignore them. delete them soon as u see them.........take care. Cheers
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• India
8 Jun 07
sure thx for the reply, and suggestions
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• India
9 Jun 07
anytime.Cheers tc
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
8 Jun 07
Any one that has an email address get these. They are scams and no matter what you do you will get some. some of them are about some poor man deing want to give his millions to charity but he can't because his family is stealing it from him. Then there is the one wher you are along lost reletive. Just don't fall for them.
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• India
8 Jun 07
good tht u told me am very emotional and usually fall for such mails, i pity them a lot. i think not to open the unknown mails will be benificial
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
8 Jun 07
You are right. It's best not to open them If you already know what they contain. I used to get three or four at a time. Then I would foreward them to each other. Now I don't get too many.
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• India
8 Jun 07
thts a great idea too, next time i get one i'll forward it to them again. and did u see the news few days back in america they arrestd a young man who was a scammer, hd money lots of money in tht, and they said people might get lesser spams. i think so it worked, i get no spam atall
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• India
8 Jun 07
My dad had received many mail of such type....This type of scams mainly originate from nigeria.....If you send them the deposit they never you again so we should not believe in such offers in which we haven`t participated ever
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• India
8 Jun 07
sure we should not be allured by easy money
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@ryanphil01 (4182)
• Philippines
8 Jun 07
i would like to refer you to my discussion about lottery claims emails that are being sent to us. you will be more enlightened on this by reading some of the responses. here's the link to that discussion: http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/903421.aspx i hope this clears your doubts.
• India
8 Jun 07
thx for the link
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@anjrit (997)
• Indonesia
8 Jun 07
I ever got this kind mail.It's really make my email account full of it and I don't like it.I use the spam filter to move or rect this mail for my email account.
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• India
8 Jun 07
spam filter sometimes creates more worries than spam
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@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
8 Jun 07
you received another scam email! gosh. good that you did the right thing and did not deposit 1000 dollars as they requested from you. these people are trying to scam you and will ran away with your money. don't believe such "you win" emails. it's one tactic for them to generate money. so, if you receive another one like this, don't believe them.... anne
@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
9 Jun 07
atleast you are there for your friend. convince her and make her believe that it's not real. or else, she;ll end up being a victim, too.
• India
9 Jun 07
one night my friend called and she enquired amid great panic about the mail, she believed it, i had to really work hard to convince her it was spam
@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
8 Jun 07
They get your e-mail from other offers you have signed up for, or even just investigated. Those lists get sold many times. They get your e-mail if you post it in a forum. There is software to extract e-mails, and software to randomly generate e-mails to attempt. If you have to deposit money as good faith for a contest, it is a rip off. In some e-mail accounts there are filters you can put in place to have it automatically sent as spam. I am glad you were smart enough not to do this. Yes, I get them all the time, mostly they go to my bulk folder.
• India
8 Jun 07
i think they can easily get our ids thru spyware which comes into our system when we download music or other files.
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@sacrg793 (429)
• China
9 Jun 07
don't believe in such kind of things, they are all scam, i got dozens of emails on this topic and i searched the internet for similar information, they said they are all scam, so don't believe it, just skip and get rid of it!
• India
9 Jun 07
thts what i do and most of us do, but its high time someone really did anything about this
@Calais (10893)
• Australia
8 Jun 07
I get at least 6 a day from all sorts of sourses. Never never reply to them or give them any information about yourself, just delete them straight away.
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• India
8 Jun 07
yes once i tried opening one but some dos file started loading and after tht i sarted receiving a lot, every time i block i'll get another one from another id. finally i reinstalled new windows.
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
8 Jun 07
They are always a scam. Another to watch out for is cash this 50K check, then electronically transfer 40K to us. This sounds like 10K for a few minutes work, well the original check is bad. You will end up being on the hook for 90K at the end of this. I have gotten at least 10 of these in the past month.
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• India
8 Jun 07
what an idea, i wonder where these people get thee wide ideas. my friends had a chat friend who invited him to invest in a hotel project in the carribean, he was all set, but at the last moment he sent his friend from usa to have a look. there was no hotel atall.
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• India
9 Jun 07
hi friends even i received lot of such mails like u. but as you know they are never true
• India
9 Jun 07
but my friends request to u is true, its not spam, pls do accept
@micaella (396)
• Philippines
11 Jun 07
Hahaha! YES and a BIG BIG YES! Lots of spams mail like that so dont be fooled with someone heheheh! I always reply it that i dont have any dollars or any money to send first to settle my account before i got that winning lotto and after that they didnt responds at all... Some kind a Trick!
• India
11 Jun 07
:( do u think i will ever get 1 million from such spam mais.impossible.
• India
11 Jun 07
thts a reall cool reply.i think i should follow ur plan
@micaella (396)
• Philippines
11 Jun 07
yah they cant think any good more ideas to that now, if you reply them in that way. Just remeber always not all of thing you found and recived mail online are not true so be careful too! CONGRATS then to you lolz for being one of the winner of that lottery!
• United States
8 Jun 07
Yes I always got the nigeran bank scam in my e-mail no matter howmany times I erased it until I created a new e-mail account. It was always letter from a lady talking she needed to deposit like a million dollars in a US bank accout and she would let me have about 40 thousand. I can't believe they expect people to believe these scams.
@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
8 Jun 07
yup. those emails from nigeria are the ones i had been receiving, too many times already. but i never believed in them. obviously, they are trying to fool people and scam them. and i think they really are able to fool some with such kind of stories because they kept on doing it. i hope people will be clever enough NOT to believe in them at all... anne
• India
9 Jun 07
is anyone atall responding, poor lady, but the fact tht she's still around shows tht she is benifiting from the mail
@Sir_bobby88 (8231)
• Singapore
9 Jun 07
Well i have been to this website called kazook whereby they say they will pay me Money if i use the website to search yea .. it is too good to be true to earn a cent per search yea
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
9 Jun 07
OH DEAR, this is a scam outright!! donot reply, just ignore and trash it immediately. i receive a lot of these but i just delete those. you can even send the spam to scam@fraudinternational.com. i think a little brain, which i am sure you have in plenty, would help a lot. good luck!!
• India
9 Jun 07
thts a great idea and everyone should take note of it.
• Canada
9 Jun 07
WoW 1000 smackers? Like one thousand dollars? Usually they ask for like a 30.00 processing fee and even much less for some of these things. Oh it is spam all right! Crooks! I remember a few years ago meeting a lady who was telling her friends what happened to her aging mother. The lady was so upset. They told the women she won a hundred thousand dollars all she needed to do was to send a money or your chegue for 20.00 for processing fee. The lady did. Then they needed more money for the special delivery. After that they wanted to know if it would be better for her to have the money deposited right into her bank account and the lady said yes and gave them her back information. They withdrew all the money out of her bank. Even my mother in law as these junk mails coming in the mail. She wanted this beautiful pearl necklace they were promoting for free if she bought a book or something ..I forget.. but she didn't get the necklace and they said she didn't pay the processing fee for the necklace and when the neclace came it looked like it was from the dollar store. The tv warns us all the time if you won the money they don't need you to send them money and if they do ask for money you are 100 percent sure it is a scam. So remember that!
• India
9 Jun 07
yeah this looks really scrry, i had so much of these mails. my heart will start palpitating hoping to see some really bad picslolb atlast nothing
• United States
8 Jun 07
Its a scam mail, as well as those people that want you to work for them processing payments, and the mails that want your help in claiming funds from a deceased person.
• India
8 Jun 07
what a way to live off others money? dont they have a heart? strict laws against them is very imperative
@dawnhm6 (48)
• United States
8 Jun 07
I just got my first of these a little over a month ago. It said my name had been placed in a "compensation draw" and I had won the grand prize of us$ 450,000. It also came with a very legitimate looking check in the amount of $3500, which was supposed to "pay for the apllicable taxes, in case you do not have money of your own do to this." While it would have been great, it all seemed very fishy. I went searching on the net, and eventually found the scam. The bank for which the check was written on had it posted on their site. I was a little relieved and a little disappointed! Disappointed, obviously, because I dodn't have $450,000! Relieved that I had not rushed right out and tried to cash the check.
• India
10 Jun 07
good tht u survived thru it. we should really be very creful with these things and nver be allured with money
@tallgee (16)
• United Arab Emirates
9 Jun 07
i have received so many mails like that. My dear, they are not real. They are internet fraudsters. Please, don't even consider paying them or else you'd loose your money and get nothing from them.
• India
9 Jun 07
the fact tht its around show as if they are legal and it is all good thing like a service which they are doing to the humanity