LOTTERY CLAIMS e-mail...scam/spam/fraud...who received this?

i always receive a few. i almost replied to one good thing my friend saw me and told me not to do it. whew! so close. I dont even how they got my email in the first place...grrr! Now when i get one i always hit on spam or block, for yahoo to block the sender.

I got an email saying i'd won $2.5million in some lottery or another. I deleted it immediately, sadly wondering what I would do with the money. lol

no, i do not respond to this kind of email at all. my children had warned me against them. they say that there are some of these which had been programmed to trigger the release of a type of virus in the computer once we open it and read its contents. so what i will do when i encounter questionable emails will be to delete them without reading at all.

Hello,ryanphil01.I have not received any email about claiming lottery prize,in fact all of them are scams,they always ask you to give your personal information and reply the email,most probably,they will demand an upfront fees for transferring the money into your account,even worse,if you give them your credit card information,they may withdraw money from your account any time. So the only is to delete the email and block any emails from that address. Never open the email as the scammers may try to see whether that email account is an active one or not,they will know you are active if you open the email and there will be more scamming emails to come later.

I received such a mail informing that I won thousands of Dollars through a luck dip among the yahoo users......Interestingly they send this mail to my Gmail ID and not to my Yahoo ID.........They asked my postal address for processing the winning amount......after receiving my postal address they asked me to reach Abudhabi to colect the price amount.......For which I informed them that I cannot travel......then they asked me to give the Bank details......I furnished the Bank details and they informed me that such a huge amount cannot transfer to the account.....so they asked me to send a scanned photograph and 8000USD to open an account in Abudhabi in my name.......the reply to my mails was very quick.......finally i told them to invest 8000USD to open my account, transfer the money to the account, take back their 8000USD and financial cost for that, give 50% to some charitable Institutions and pay balance amount to me......then there was no reply .......I received this mails from transglobal.......these all are biggest scams and these people are dangerous than terrorists......If any body have such experiences , please describe it

I ignored the emails, but my cousin responsed once and he was swindled out of about $200. They emailed him again after he responsed, asking for his address, which he gave. Later, they mailed him a letter of congratulations, and convinced him to pay them a delivery fee (S200) for his winning lottery ticket to be shipped to him. He was to exchange it for money in a specific location. My cousin had the money sent to them, but they later sent another letter that my cousin was too late in his reply and he lost his qualification. His money was forfeited. We lodged a police report, but they say that my cousin did not read the fine print which states that it was no guaranteed.

I think there are more and more of these so called lottery winnings - at least in my mailbox. I just report them as spam but they still keep coming. I think it is a sort of identity theft.

I've gotten some of these things in my mail box. I looked it up online, and like 15 other people posted it, and most people just dont take the time, so I'm guessing it gets sent to a couple hundered, or even thousand people and if they get one person to fall for it, they will make enough for that month or what ever. My brother once got a inheritance scam, where he was picked to recieve an heritance for a relitive we never heard of, and he just had to pay so much money to open the bank account with all the money in it.. lol.