I have won 7500000 pounds!!
By Yogesh2708
@Yogesh2708 (454)
India
March 14, 2011 2:51am CST
Today i got email from British premium oil promo. Saying you have earned 750000 pounds. I didn't started thinking this is miracle because i know how my luck is. Previously my father's friends had got same message but from different sender. They became happy. I told them that these are nothing but scams. Don't respond them. If you provide them your info, they may misuse it. But they told me again and again to send them mail providing their real info ie name, address and many more.
First i sent them mail how can i trust you just only to know what they'll reply. But they replied me again and again same message.
I sent them inadequate info. They constantly email me of providing more details but i never gave them. But this time they are telling me that they will transfer this big abount to my city bank account. I don't know more about this bank. I know they'll never do it. But i want to ask that what is their profit if i did as they said?
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20 responses
@eurekafemme (5877)
• Philippines
14 Mar 11
Oh, please be wary about it , Yogesh when you have not joined any contest or bet on anything. It is absolutely a scam!
I have received similar emails, also, my husband. They are very patient always answering our emails. But of course, we are just trying to test them. At the end, they asked about our personal bank informations and wanting us to deposit a certain money first before they can proceed on depositing the whole amount.It is carzy! Why would you believe that you have won an amount when you haven't joined any lottery or place any bet on something. 
Som lease, do not fall for this kind of thing. It is a scam....
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I have received similar emails, also, my husband. They are very patient always answering our emails. But of course, we are just trying to test them. At the end, they asked about our personal bank informations and wanting us to deposit a certain money first before they can proceed on depositing the whole amount.It is carzy! Why would you believe that you have won an amount when you haven't joined any lottery or place any bet on something.
Som lease, do not fall for this kind of thing. It is a scam....
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@thinkingoutloud (6127)
• Canada
14 Mar 11
You really shouldn't bother responding to those types of emails at all. Just delete them. When you respond, all you are doing is validating your email address for these scammers. They will now know that they have reached an email that someone is actively using and they will very likely continue to spam you. You gain nothing by testing those people and what they gain is access to you. I'd highly encourage you to avoid them all together :)
@Yogesh2708 (454)
• India
14 Mar 11
Ok thanks you very much for helping. Actually i don't beleive such a scammers. Just for my curiosity i sent this. But your husband has gone further than me. But finally they ask to deposit moneys so thats their profit. I wanted to hear this how they earn. Ok thanks. I am going to send them mail 'ok how much moneys i should deposit in your account!' they'll be surprised! Let's test them.
@Yogesh2708 (454)
• India
14 Mar 11
Oh my god 1000$ very big penalty. Thanks for advise. What they said to him after giving his details?
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
14 Mar 11
These scams profit from other people's greed, stupidity and weakness. You were very wise to advise everyone you knew to never respond to this kind of mail.
There are two ways in which they make money out of these scams. The first is by knowing your personal details. By knowing your bank details, they can potentially access your bank account and extract money from it. More likely they will pester you for money in order to 'release' your 'winnings'. Unfortunately, enough people will send them the money that it is definitely worth their while to keep sending out these spam messages.
@Yogesh2708 (454)
• India
14 Mar 11
Yes thats good luck of such a scammers that peoples reprods them or provides them money. I can't understand why peoples think they will be paid so much high amount for doing nothing.
Is there any organisation established against these scammers?
@darapmonsta (653)
• India
14 Mar 11
no doubt it is a scam i get around 30 - 40 emails like this and i don't replay them. Offcourse you cannot give your all details to anybody that you don't know. It is the way to cheat people they will ask all your bank details and then cash out money from your bank/ or make disuse of your personal information.
The one way to get rid from these type of emails is that whenever you get these emails filter it from the sender.
Try to filter as much emails as you get. It will surely reduce the rate at which they are blasting our inbox.
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@Uu4ria (63)
• Malaysia
14 Mar 11
Y2708,
If all these so call "good luck thing" is true, there will be no more people working in the physical world anymore! lol. Yes, plenty of people have receive some sort of similar windfall if you will in their email inbox. I personally have receive a number of sms on my phone stating that I won a sum of money in a contest. How the heck can I win if I never enter that contest and furthermore the text came from another county?
The reason why scammers can do that is the gullibility of human being. We are greedy and why not if we can "win" some? They will surprise you with a huge some of money to occupy your mind on that and when they ask for a small sum of say 1000 to 3000 bucks you will think it's a small sum compared to the sum that you'll "receive". Just think that if they scam 500 people from all over the world for one scheme, they'll disappear to plot on their next one.
Cheers.
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@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
15 Mar 11
Chances are there would be no profit to you. If they have your information, there is a chance they could access your account and take your money without your permission. I responded to one of those emails once (a different company) and I was in contact with them until they told me I needed to send some sum of money in order for them to deposit an even larger amount into my account. I told them to take it out of what they wanted to send me. I didn't hear from them again after that.
@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
16 Mar 11
I like to pass that suggestion on whenever I see discussions like this. It may not keep them from making initial contact, but if you keep telling them this and then don't respond to future emails, they will eventually leave you alone. I think after I deleted the first few emails like that, gmail eventually started sending most of these type of emails to the spam box because I don't see them often any more, but that box has thousands of emails in it before I delete them all!
@forcemaster245 (220)
• Singapore
16 Mar 11
Well that was quite a smart answer, and that definitely got them (the scammers). At least you prevented yourself from getting ripped off.
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@forcemaster245 (220)
• Singapore
16 Mar 11
They'll just keep asking you for more money, and the usual excuses they'll give is that they need processing fee from you, and after you give them once they might say something like "Processing fee has been raised so need more input of cash from you." or some other excuses to rip you off.
They could also use your credit card info to make payments for themselves, while leaving you to settle their expenses.
@imfr33 (98)
• Philippines
14 Mar 11
Email like these are scary.. hehe
Been receiving similar emails occasionally and I've never replied to any of them. Well, I did replied once out of curiosity and got no reply from them up to this day.
Probably it was automated, like some kind of bot sending 'You've Won!' emails to random individuals.
@Yogesh2708 (454)
• India
14 Mar 11
No friend they are not automated first one you have won may be automated. But whenever i have replied them they have replied me saying give us more details.
@Yogesh2708 (454)
• India
15 Mar 11
Ok accept my friend request. I'll tell you everything through messages because to share it here is against mylot terms and conditions.
@asrararmar (209)
• India
14 Mar 11
Oh ho Sorry to say this but this type of mails 100% scam mails..they just cheating the people and never ever provide the address to this peoples or never reply to this kind of mails they are proved scam mails you better delete and ignored that mail..if you provide your address they can mis use your information provided by you...Be Safe and you done the right thing by posting the issue here
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Mar 11
Yogersh its a scam do not do anythong more no more info they willnot send you all that money, they will tellyou you must sent a large amount of money to get that fortune then they will never contact you again. thats the way they make a profit as they never had 75000000 pounds at all. they are liars and scam artists.delete delete delete
@wongchoiyee (7413)
• Malaysia
15 Mar 11
They will get the courier service money about few hundreds.
@shia88 (4571)
• Malaysia
15 Mar 11
Hi,
I did received lot of emails about winning money from unknown
email addresses and I never responded to any of them, I believe they are scams.
and it is best to ignore their messages and never email them back any of
your personal details expecially the bank account information.
But I am wondering how can they get our emails in the first place.
I have been receiving those kind of emails almost everyday from unknown
person or organizations.
They are telling me winning a big jackpot,etc,...I can't believe there is such
easy way to win money without me doing anything.
Get away those kind of emails.
@greenpeas (998)
• Philippines
14 Mar 11
It's a scam alright.
They either will steal your private information, or asks you to send them a small money for feee to process your prize.
After that they disappear and either you lose your money right away or your credit cards having mysterious charges.
@aimankarikal (169)
• India
14 Mar 11
i think these type of emails comes in evryones inbox . these are the scam mails . it is not only with mails but nowadays we receive sms too saying that you have won that much amt all these are scam..
@sam19810528 (45)
• China
15 Mar 11
It's a scam with no doubt. The only thing you have to do is ignoring them just like there has nothing happend. Otherwise you would be bamed by them.
