lottery notice in my mail
By sminut13
@sminut13 (1783)
Singapore
February 5, 2008 10:37am CST
i received mail today informing that i was one of this year's iveco new year lottery award program's winner. it was from iveco lottery promotion and the mail was ...yahoo.co.uk. they've told me i can claim it by sending particulars to a particular person and the e-add is given too.
i've received quite a number of this kind of mails and always deleted it. what about you guys? have you received it? so is it scam?? tell me your opininons.
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16 responses
@catjane (1036)
• United States
5 Feb 08
I get those alot in my emial, plus ones from Africa telling me I have come in to millions LOL. I have a folder I put them in and when I can figure it out will send it to the fraud department. These are all scams. I usually respond to them byt telling them they are being reported. Maybe that will stop them if they think they are in trouble.
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@Aingealicia (1905)
• United States
5 Feb 08
Its a hoax, don't give them any info, contact the bank it is associated with and report them. I had one actually delivered Fed Ex and the bank that I called had been after them for a bit.
Ainge
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@Aingealicia (1905)
• United States
6 Feb 08
Your welcome. Anything like that is usually a scam to be honest. That is what the bank told me. Glad to help.
Ainge
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@honeylore23 (1081)
• United States
6 Feb 08
I have receive a lot of times. There was one time, I did respond to their email. Give fake information and then send it to them. Then after a day, I receive again an email and it is said there to claim my prize I should pay an amount which is somewhat big too, but I can't remember anymore how much exactly it is. They said I need to pay those because they will use it to process my prize. From then, I found out, through it is just a scam. After that incident, whenever I received those kind of email, I have them spam.
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@honeylore23 (1081)
• United States
6 Feb 08
I did it out of curiosity. I want to find out how true it is and whether is it just really a scam. Included in the information they asked are question about why do they pay when in fact I never join the lottery. They give explanation, but then it is not convincing. They asked money, that it makes really unbelievable.
Thanks too for your appreciation.
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@jhl930 (3601)
• United States
5 Feb 08
I have actually heard of people getting something like this in the mail where they would not even sign up for anything or register for anything and then they would get an email a few days later that said that they had won a huge lotto...I have never actually recieved one myself because I always just thought that it was either a scam or it was spam...either of which I dont really like to much...I haven't heard of anyone claiming the money yet so you better watch out because it coudl be a scam!
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@sminut13 (1783)
• Singapore
5 Feb 08
i'll definitely do as you say. but still deep in my heart, i was hoping that maybe some may have heard of this one. oh well. grins. not all dreams come true. i'll be taking your advice and watching out for similar mails like this.
thanks everyone for your help here.
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@anonymili (3138)
•
5 Feb 08
It's a scam and there are 1000s of others like. For your own sake, please don't send any information to these people. They play on the fact that there are gullible pople out there who would actually believe they won a lottery that they hadn't even bought a ticket for! How likely is that now? Remember: if it sounds too good to be true, it always is!
@sheenshaukat (2617)
• Pakistan
12 Feb 08
They are collecting personal information plus money from the people who want to become rich with in a night. I also got such type of emails, but I did not respond them. Because I know that there is no lunch free on the earth. It is better to earn the money in return of hard work on line as well as in our physical life.
@marketing07 (6266)
• South Korea
6 Feb 08
oh..dear smi it was a scam..ive always recieved that everyday..i spam it..takecare
@sminut13 (1783)
• Singapore
6 Feb 08
point taken jpso. i too have received it ocassionally before though not that often. i always used to ignore it. i just wanted to know whether it could really be true and all. but as all the other great people here have told me, it's all a scam. thanks for your advice.
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@science_vs_romance (58)
• Germany
10 Feb 08
Spam spam spam. I hate it...How much you get depends on your mailadress. If it's very popular, e.g. you used in on public forums or blogs, then the possibility to get such mails is much higher. I have several mailadresses, personal ones for friends and business and such I use for forums and blogs. There I often get those "lottery mails" too, on the others not...
@Sungolian (377)
• United States
8 Feb 08
Unfortunately, they are trying to scam you. I got like a thousand e-mails that told me I won money or whatever and they were all fake.
@kashifmahmood (617)
• Pakistan
8 Feb 08
These type of emails are definitely scam . I never believed in them and did exactly the same what you did.These scammers are both scamming and spamming at the same time . Many people that are new to internet fall victim to such schemes and learn their lessons .
You have also seen various banners on websites that say "You have won $$$" etc etc ... These are other forms of scams.Usually the webmaster of such a site is also involved in such activities.Just ignore such stuff and you will never have any problem.
