Got a letter telling I won 2 Million $.Is it real or a scam?

This is a total scam. Do not believe this kind of email. I get loads of this almost everyday and sometimes they even use well known company like coca-cola. This letters comes from people who haven't got anything good up their sleeves and just want to ruin people by scamming them getting their info and using it for their own. Be careful..Never send your info to anyone you don't know.

Definitely it is a scam. Did you participate in this lottery? Ifnot then it is certainly a scam. I would not bother to respond and do not divulge any personal information. © ronaldinu 2008

Well it's not a miracle nor unfamiliar to receive these types of email messages nowadays. In fact, it's been proliferating in the internet again. Personally, I also have received about three to five messages from these 'scammers' telling me that I was chosen to be an heir of a deceased individual who has no dependents nor relatives. Sometimes, they would even indicate a person's name whom you have to contact to be able to claim your inheritance. And in your case, it isn't inheritance but just the same, they still require you to give some personal details. In my own point of view, any message indicating that you have gained a large sum of money in one way or the other; especially if coming from outside your country or through fictitious sources would mean trouble or scam. Be more alarmed when they ask you to divulge your personal information to them.

Red flag! Your account number? Now way, its a scam. That letter is for the trash. With that information you would most likely be a victim of identity fraud. Protect youself, put it in the shredder. If it sounds too good to be true it almost always is!!

Hey... don't think about it.... without doubt I can tell it is a scam...... Don't believe in this and waste your time...... Had you participated in any lottery games......????? or Had you participated in any activities of that particular company......???? Who will give you $2Million at free of cost....????? Will you give at least $10 free to any person whom you don't know.....???? Then, how can you expect someone will give you that much money freely...???? Think well.... before you act......

What a scam that is, did you play any somalian Lottery? if not, you have received a scam letter trying to rip you off your money,STOP

One thing those letters have in common is that they all want to know all your details! But they come from various places, England, Nigeria and other African countries! Disregard it!

hi friend Its a perfect scam email, I use to get this type of mails regularly , so please don't provide any details to them, just simply delete the mail.

So no doubt, it is a scam. If you see some unusual, African kind of name, country, or something like that, (in your case it is Somalia, I don't know why Africa is popular)just ignore this kind of stuff. They might ask you to give the bank account number to transfer certain amount of money and you receive a percentage, this also is a scam. In general, every mail asking for my personal details, and especially if I don't know the source of that mail, I ignore, delete it. To cut the story short, I recommend you to visit these sites if you want to know more about scam and spam: http://www.ic3.gov/ http://www.scambusters.org/ http://www.spamlaws.com/ and of course, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)

these are scam mails for sure i get these type of mails twice a day so i just send them to the trash folder and just ignore them don't waste your time on them.

This is a scam. I actually got two of these but they were by email and they didn't ask for my bank account # just my bank name. then about a week later I recieved a check. The first one was for $3000.00 and the second was for $2400.00. The checks looked real the only thing wrong was they were signed by the name of the company and I know that a company check has to be signed by an individual. I looked up the company and called them. They said they had been informed by 3 other people that same week about this. The company told me that they didn't understand how this person had gotten all of their information but they had everything correct their routing number, their account number, bank name, address, everything. I came to the conclusion the person that sent the check wanted me to deposit the check (if the teller would have been in a hurry and not had payed attention, or if I didn't know about the signing policy) then they would have my information, plus I would be responsible for the amount of the check if I would have spent any of it. My sister works at RBC Centura and she said that many of these scams are going around right now.

DON'T DO IT! Of course it's a scam. You can't win lotteries that you didn't enter. These fake lottery emails have been around forever. They send these emails to random addresses...thousands and thousands of them. They are phishing for people with money and good credit to rob them and steal identities. You will find that if you open these emails, you will get more and more of them. Delete them, don't open them.

NO STOP DONT DO IT!!!It has to be a scam why would they needyour bank account number already...I'm not positive but im sure its alot more steps you need to go through when you win such a big prize...not just give me your info and i'll deposit it in there...I dont thik thats how it works

It's absolutely a scam .the pie from the sky ,please don't pick it up ,that is a trap! take care!

Yep. Definitely a scam. They've got several version actually.

Definitely a scam! Did you join that lottery? If yes, it's still a scam since I think lotteries wouldn't announce their winners through that. If no, then no doubt it's a scam. The moment they get your bank account details, you're in trouble. They're going to use it like crazy. Just forget about it, erase it and move on.

I've got letters that I won millions of dollar from UK, Africa and other countries. Same thing, I need to give them my personal information but I never replied to those emails because I know its a fraud and its a scam!!! So I delete it immediately and go on with my life. LOLs!!! So, never believe everything that is so suspicious especially via internet.

Hey Do try it if ur interested.....LOL

Pffftt, that scam. I got that ages ago and it's like a huge scam. You should know better as an adult that it's a scam. Too good to be true.

Although I'm sure you wish this could have been real, it is unfortunately a scam. These "nigerian" scams (they are called that, despite the fact that they can originate from anywhere) are people trying to convince you to give up all of your details so that they can steal your identity and drain your bank account. Similar to a "phishing" attack (an attack in which a spoof web page is used to entice a user into giving up his login credentials), this other type of social engineering scam is designed to steal your money. As a rule of thumb, never give out your bank information or personal data online!