OOOOhhh My GOD!!!!!!!
By Neha Ahire
@kanukrishna (423)
India
September 16, 2009 12:04am CST
Dear friends,
I saw an email in my inbox that shows that I won A lottery of 4.7 Million Dollars, But when i use to go in deep I come to about the fact that is fake email...
But then i thinked that how many people have got this, and what they do then?
If someone is here who faced this please share your experience..
and let us know what should we do when saw these type of fake messages??/
"NEHA"
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9 responses
@sheetalnr (586)
• India
16 Sep 09
I have got such mails..in the past. Delete it without opening them, as they can be very dangerous. So of these mails attack ur address book as soon as u open them. So watch out and never ever give any personal information on the internet.
@kanukrishna (423)
• India
16 Sep 09
Well, I do not think so, can any e-mail attack on adress book?
But It may be possible because very master mind hackers are over world wide, It may be possible...
Ok,,,
I will take your advice seriously and will not open any email of this type.
Thanks For your response
"NEHA"
@tcup345 (358)
• United States
17 Sep 09
Unless it's coming from someone you know, delete it. It's fake. I sometimes get into sweepstakes, Free Lotto, legitimate ones and anything that I'm not familiar with gets deleted. It's Spam, most of those places want your private info so they can get into your credit, bank accounts and the like. Often they want money to send you your winnings, if it costs you money, it's a fraud. Often they will want to send you a check, cash it and want some money in return, from that check. The check will bounce and you'll be left holding the bag and the debt, you will have to repay the bank the amount of the bounced check and any fees that apply.
We have to be careful, there are too many scammers who think we are dumb and rich and they are very willing to cheat us.
@kanukrishna (423)
• India
18 Sep 09
It can be also dangerous if coming from your relatives.
I remember that someone has hacked gmail password of a proffesor in my city INDORE, INDIA. and send their outside relatives to financial help, and some relative take it seriously and sent the money, then any relative contacted to the profeesor about that email, proffesor shocked and then he called (Mobile) all the relatives to do not send money...
"NEHA"
@StarBright (2798)
• United States
16 Sep 09
Delete it quickly. Do not waste your time. These people are trying to extort money from you. Do not be fooled. A friend of mine responded and ended up traveling to Switzerland, emptying her bank account and coming home with nothing.
They send those fake messages all of the time. Just delete them.
@kanukrishna (423)
• India
16 Sep 09
Thanks for responding,
I will not do what they says, thanks. I will delete it quickely.
@hagirl (1295)
• United States
17 Sep 09
I believe everyone in the military right now wants to put money in my account to hold for them. I think it is really sad how they use our military men and women for such scams. The ones that are fighting for our freedom do not even realize how they are being used in this respect. I think it is ashame of how far some people will go to get your personal information.
@kanukrishna (423)
• India
18 Sep 09
I think they have to use the famous personality so that the outsider can identify them as that personality,
well after all, this is too sad,
They must use their mastermind in real and legel things , they can earn even more from that.
"NEHA"
@cmdr001 (371)
• Portugal
16 Sep 09
It has happened and my first reaction was to delete the mail.
I have not applied to any lottery with my email and I'd only do so with a trustworthy group, so, if regardless of this I'm getting an email from an unknown source claiming this it's clearly a scam.
Of course, people who have no common sense and have greed jumping out of their eyes quickly get swayed by this and screwed, but little can be done for those people. Even if they are educated on the matter they'll still think "Just now it won't hurt.", later results being terrible.
@kanukrishna (423)
• India
16 Sep 09
yes,
Exactly, I was thinking that when i did not applied for any lottery then how can I win this....
After some time I reallize that Its may be a pure scam and a processure to make money on internet with fraudness...
thanks for your response...
@1anurag1 (3576)
• India
16 Sep 09
I got many mails of these kinds. and if i claimed all the prizes i would have exceeded mr,Bill Gates. lol
Friend those are the fake mails only, dont respond even them, when you go ahead with them they will ask you for money. This is nothing just some type of spams and dont take them seriously friend
@kanukrishna (423)
• India
16 Sep 09
HI,
Thanks for your precious advice,,
and of course many of us can be richer than Mr. gates.....
I wish those email should be real..
LLLLOOOOOLLLLL
"NEHA"
@Ammudoll (549)
• India
20 Sep 09
Oh those are all fake emails, I just delete them withot opening some times. Every 6 months like that I see such emails either in my gmail or yahoo accounts. In the beginning I thought how they got my email later when I discussed with my friends and colleagues they said the truth, since then I just delete and ignore such emails which land in my Inbox. If we contact them they will ask us to send money through post or DD and disappears.
@millertime (1394)
• United States
17 Sep 09
Unfortunately, these scams are perpetrated across the internet all the time. The sad thing is that some people will actually get drawn in and fall for it and it ends up costing them big time. Do yourself a favor and just delete those types of emails immediately. They are all scams.