Need help here:I receive an email saying that I won in their lottery.

Don't do it. It's a Phishing Scam. You can't win a lottery that you don't enter into. They are just trying to get your personal information and possibly steal your identity. If you want to be a good internet user and stop people from running these scam, forward phishing emails like those to this address Spam@uce.gov they can track the source, stop those mails from being sent and even prosecute.

Anyone who is giving (of all people) you money, especially millions is a scammer. That's the rule of thumb.

This is ABSOLUTELY a scam and leads to identity theft. The golden rule is that if it sounds too good to be true, then it is. How can you win a lottery you haven't entered?

Delete the email because its most likely a scam you should never send personal info to strange company's on the net no matter what they clam it could be Identity theft theres a lot of that going on these days so please becareful.

DOnt ever believe on that. That is a scam. How can you win a lottery you dont even play? YOu should had to think it over before going to go with the trap they have from you. I do always receive all of it in different stories even winning lottery but i never believe instead delete the messages.

It's a scam alrite. I'd too receive lots of the lottery winning e-mails, not to mentions in my mailbox also (wonder how they get my adress). One time it was from a lottery in UK but i went on searching through the net upon the phone no and it end up in Spain. Funny just to think since I never buy any ticket so how could I win such a lottery ticket number. Anyway there are some us fall for that. So becareful they might just want you to send your personal info to them like your bank account nomber and so. Then they say that you have to pay a little sum of maoney to make the money be transfered to you and then they dissapear. Imagine if they take only like 50 dollar per person you calculate that with this world population if everyone feel like a winner.

Its a scam, you should not have even replied to it at all...You should just delete it straight away...You can not win anything unless you entered so thats a great indication... Dont send them anything at all....It dosnt matter if its scanned or not, its the information that is on it they want....

Like everyone has said, it is a scam. They can use your passport even if it is scanned.... which is sad. What they most likely do is take your identity and use it as theirs. Any time another country says that you've won their lottery- and you haven't even entered a contest for that, I wouldn't fall for it.

Dont ever believe this. Its surely spam1 Do not publish your details and surely not any of your proofs. The possibilities are being high nowadays! SO I am telling you again to be careful about this

Did you enter the lottery in the first place? I think your answer will be no. That is a scam and this has been going on for ages. can you imagine with the current technology, what they can do with your scanned passport, id and driver's license? You could be a victim of an identity theft if you are not careful. I am sure that you know what that is. Just a rule of thumb my friend, there is no way that someone or some organizations would give you a big amount of money just like that. especially when you don't even know when and what lottery that you have taken part in. I know the prize is really tempting and that's what that got people trapped most of the time. We are blinded by the amount of money promised and therefore, we left our common sense behind. Hope that you would reconsider sending them those documents and I hope other would be telling you the same thing as well. Take care!

This is absolutely scam. I usually delete this kind of email. How can you win when you have not join the lottery. Among these are beautiful and convincing letter for you to accept the given dispensation of millions, grants, and business partnership.They are a bunch of thieves and scammers.

I have to agree, this is a scam. I have received many of the same e-mails. I have actually e-mailed them back askiing them to send me proof that they are't trying to scam me. Guess what, I never received a reply. Do you think maybe they realized that I wasn't falling for it? Never send your personal information to anybody unless you are 1000% sure it is safe. You could have your identity stolen and used is all sorts of ways that will ruin your credit. It is not easy to get it fixed either.