Won AUD40 Million, thought the email was a scam!

You are victimize from a scam if you reply that troll emails from somewhere we don't know who is person beyond that emails. If you reply the reply message is from another location...when you give info a message is from another location but the truth is that is from african peninsula...This is now called african email.

If it was from OZ Lotteries, it's no scam. I have been receiving their emails for a couple of years now. I joined up back in '07. They regularly send you updates and when you first sign up you get some free lines to play. After that you pay but they are not expensive. Haven't done that yet but may get a chance one day soon. Even had my sister in Aus play some numbers for me last night. Not sure if we were lucky. And two people DID win one of the big ones a couple of weeks back. Was all over our news. The lucky beggars.

I would too delete it.I would not take the chance to give personal details to a lottery i didn't even participate in.I also have chances of loosing money from my account.If that case happened i would say what have i done?I should have contacted the person to get the money deposited in my bank account.

I would have likely deleted it too, because 99.99999999999999999999999% of them are spam and scam. I actually did receive and e-mail saying I won $100 a couple of weeks ago and it was for real- because I signed up with the place, and I have been paid before by them.

i would think twice, trice actually. like how did this happen when i have not even joined any contest of some sort?!? i used to get emails and cellphone messages like that. i even won two cars in one week! you will know it when it is scam. because the true ones will call you and maybe send telegram. and will never ask for money have a nice day. ann

I do get these scam emails from time to time as most do! But if you had a ticket in that particular draw and you know that they have your email address, surely you would check it out! LOL I am in Australia and these scam emails that I get are always from some lottery or inheritence in Europe or Africa, never from Australia! Maybe the winner is not very confident online! I know some people who are not very experienced computer users and are scared of everything online being some sort of security breach to them...LOL :-)

It would depend whether this Australian really do buy a lottery ticket and they said they would notify him by email. In that case, they would have had his id number and it would have been in the Australian papers. Also if it is a scam, then he would not know until he went to pick it up and if he had to pay a lot of money to get it, then he would know it was not real. I would assume it was a scam because I never entered the contest. Now if it were true, the person might have entered the lottery without knowing about it either when purchasing something and there was a notice on the cash receipt that said "this has entered you in the ===lottery," and since he paid cash, he threw the receipt away. So it could have been he entered the lottery but did not realize it.

Well, if he deleted the email, I'm sure it'll still be in the trash folder, wouldn't it? Unless of course, he deletes everything in the trash as well.. But if I found something like that in my inbox, I'll delete it. Cause for one, I don't buy any lottery tickets.. And if I do, they will not send emails.. LOL

I hate scams. I will probably delete it also and inform others about this scam

I get those kind of emails a lot. I really think they are scams. Some are from Japan, Nicaragua, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, etc. Gosh! One time I was curious so I checked on it....see if it's for real. Then as soon as you read the email....It says that you need to email back your full info. Including your bank info. That's ridiculous!!! One email from Thailand says that you need to send like $800 for a plane ticket. LOL I wonder if anyone actually fall for that scam. $800 is a lot of money.

Hi, I keep getting such email either from the US or UK everyday. I remember when I first got such a email i persuaded the email. I wrote to them as to how to claim the prize money. They wrote back asking for certain details like name, address, telephone number and country. I had given all those details. Then came the actually truth about these emails. They wrote back asking to deposite as certain thousand dollars to a certain account towards insurance and processing fee for amount won by me. That is when I understood that these emails are just a hoax to rob simple people. Then after a couple of days I read about these email in the New Paper called The Time Of India and these companies send such emails just to rob simple people cause someone had infact deposited the said money in the account and got nothing. They even lost the amount they deposited. So people never give into these emails just delete them immediately before they get the greed into you. Regards, Lawrence J Nicholas ===================

LOL! this is funny but a good reality check...I actually dont read any email saying I won specially when it is automatically directed to the spam mail. I guess if that happens I will really be pissed off... but wont be able to do anything else than that because it is already deleted without me even opening it. Mipen2006, now your making my mind think that from now one I still should read it before deleting emails. hahhaa

I delete stuff like that. It is ALLWYAS scams.. at least that was what I thought.. ha ha ;) poor dude.. Anyway, there are allways stories in the newspaper, television or so about people who have been trciked because they thought it for once in a while was true. Instead of a millionaire - they loose even more money.

that was powerball, was it? I read that two winners one is in SD,one is from mel.Luky~~ I bought 12 games but.......... if I received the email like that, deleted it of course

Hi my friend Mipen. I often get scams in my emails and I can get worried out them. For example I got two from someone pretending to be Pay Pal and E Bay. It said I had won a laptop for £150. Oh what I had thought because I didn't buy a laptop. I checked my account with Pay Pal straight away. All was fine so what a scam. If I got an email to say I had won 40 million I would think it was a scam. I would leave the email alone or delete it I imagine.

I’ve heard about this! You can’t blame the winner who deleted the email; I would too. I receive around 10 a day claiming I have won huge amounts of cash and of course they are all scams considering that I never took part on their so called ‘lotteries’. The winner from last night was probably justified in thinking it was a fraud. Thank goodness he or she learnt later that it was legit; can you imagine if the winner had lost the winnings because they deleted the email? That would have been tragic!

Chances are good that I would just delete it too. There are so many scams out there and fake "winners" that it's tough to know what's real and what's not. I get winner emails all the time telling me I've won something or other, but they're all just scams. What happened to the good old days of sending snail mail letters to inform people of their winnings? That sounds like a safer way to me since you rarely see fake winner letters from a lottery thing (or I don't around here, anyway).

If i did not play any lottery i will know it is a scam but if i did play one,i will be the happiest person on the face of the earth

Hahahaha I'd delete it too:( No seriously though I guess I'd check everything like the web address etc. If I thought it was actually from the Lotto company then I'd start to get a bit crazy:):)