I have won $2,000,000.00............................Beware Of Email Scams!!!

Thanks for the information caribe,i have recieved atleast four UK winning lottery emails aswell and some email from Yahoo admin that i won about $500.00 but i know they are all just scams,once i have read about this millionaire lotteries in a newspaper a person lost about 5700.00 UK pound sterlings for claiming such lottery and in the end what he got well nothing at all.After you fill the form they'll ask about the expenses/charges of the transfer and courier charges and document charges and so on,to make money for themselves so its quite better to stay away from such proposals as sometime mind can be dragged away and stop thinking where there is such big amount is involved.

Yes we have won the lottery dozens of times too .... never get any money from it though ... but they never get any of ours either. If I want a chance to win the lottery I will go to the local agent and buy a ticket over the counter. Many people do get scammed ... generally those who are not highly educated or are new to the internet ... or are just plain greedy and perhaps stupid enough to provide their personal information. My partner and I did a couple of tests on some sites we thought were suspicious. This was some time ago ... we started some new free email accounts and put in odd names (cats and dogs). Used one for each site we joined and the addresses were not for anything else ... within a few days we started to get weird offers and won some lottery every day for weeks. We cancelled the email addresses admitting we what we had done. We did this because someone had told us that they thought some sites were selling email addresses ... even when they said they didn't. This proved to us that it was happening with some sites ... so think about a site that you joined which might be a bit suspect and that is probably where it came from.

Good advice! I get at least 2-3 of these a day, along with Nigerian-scam type things from everywhere on earth. Wouldn't we just love to know what kind of list we got on, lol?! There's so many scams out there anymore just waiting to suck the innocent (and hopeful) newbies in. I wish they could catch the creeps who start this kind of stuff. It's nice for you to give a heads-up to others so that they will become aware of these things.

i am always receiving also such kind of e-mails and i really hate it,it was my husband who told me to disregard them because they are just scam cheaters who wanted money and information from us..i always recieved that i won because my e-mail address is chosen,or won in a certain lottery,and or i have to help a son of a president whose money is in the bank and he needs safe person who will do withdrawal from it and letting me pay processing fees..all those things are disgusting!but i am curious where did they get my e-mail add!

Hi caribe. I received a lot of these emails and I know they are scam. I think they want you to give them your personal information and then they sell it to third parties? Well, I have received emails many times for winning the lottery and others from the UK lottery which I never played, and many others. But of course when they ask for personal information and especially your credit cards, I just report these emails as spam. Thank you for warning people and I'm sure there are some who can get so excited that they will give whatever information they have been asked for.

Haha...i have received those letters from net or mobile phone.But I always ignore it or just think it is a stupid cheat. There is an old sentence that No work No money. So I just believe the money from my hard work. Wish everyone can spot this conmanship deeply.

What is sad, is when people actually believe in these things, and send the $$, and in return get nothing. They really think they have Won and don't think twice about giving the $$ and their information out to someone. I am Glad though that you did not fall for it, and put this Warning out here for others to see and read. Another thing, depending on what Email system you have or use, some Email sites let you Block the Email from that person to where all of it bounces. That is another Great way of protecting yourself from further Email from these type of people as well.

I receive those letters all the time in the mail all the time.I dont even wasting my time reading those things.I dont even bother.Its a shame people wants to scam innocent people.Thanks for bringing this up,some people may not be aware.

I haven't gotten any of these for some time. For a while I would send them on to each other. I don't get any of them right now. It would be nice to win that much money. but I know that if I didn't inter a contest I didn't win. It's too bad that there are enough gullable people out there to encourage these scam artests. Any way thank for the heads ups caribe.

I have won more that 20 lotteries like that one the last 1 year. It seems that this way of scamming people is very popular. They keep saying to me that I participated in a lottery and my number is the first one and that i have won a lot of millions dollars (in every email the amount is different). And I am wondering who can believe them and give them what they ask for? And everytime i am receiving such a mail I pray someday to be true....

yes exactly right even if or when you think it might be legit don't accept the 2 million if you look at the stats on it, it makes life worse, not better keep your integrity first, even if that means working for $5 an hour then maybe if its legit, and you keep your integrity and soul, then accept it, otherwise no money is just money, when you are dying, lonely, etc.. someday you realize that

there's a lot of internet scams scattering around the web. winning instant prizes after just signing up for a website is so suspicious, not unless you know the site very well. plus when sites try to solicit an amount for you to claim the prize, its definitely a scam!

It IS amazing what the thought of easy money can do to turn people with common sense into gullible beings with stars in their eyes. Thank you for sharing this. I would like to add that many of these "scams" are illegal and any email claiming you won money, or wanting you to accept some unclaimed inheritance (known as money-laundering - which you CAN go to jail for if you participate in - and phishing scams) should be forwarded with full headers viewable for investigation. The address is spam@uce.gov

I haven't seen any of these particular emails just yet, but if I did then I'd just delete them first thing on sight. I am aware there are too many scams out there and you should never just give your information out. Common sense would tell anyone most of these scam offers or so called "winnings" are too good to be true. Only advice I can say is never buy into any of that crap they try and tell you, otherwise you'll really end up regretting it.

I have also been receiving those emails lately. I haven't signed up for a new site so I think they must be randomly getting these emails. The first I received took my breath away until I finally read it completely. I knew I had not signed up for nay kind of drawing with the UK and I also knew I did not even have an account at Yahoo. I have signed up for many sweepstakes in the past but I have never signed up for the ones that sending these emails. I know there are still a lot of new people getting online and I am sure there are hundreds if not thousands a day that fall victim to these type scams. Thanks for posting that and keeping us informed.

Yah, we should take care of these spam mails,,,coz it may take us in big troubles. they are just fake letters & are made to make peopl fool. they try to cheat people & run away with there money

Dont mind lottery letters most of all of them are scamm as u rightly said. i have few of this lottery letters in my mail box as i am responding to your post.i am realynot happy with it because i spend alot of time del them off my box. i reply some with warning not to do so again but they refuse .all they know anline is to send scam mails.

YEah why would you have to send money if you won money. tell them to take it out of what you won. I would throw them away.

Thank you for sharing this with all of us. Over the past few months I have received at lest two of those e-mails myself, maybe more. It sounded very fishy to me when it said they needed my banking information. I deleted them immediately. I have also received letters like this through the postal service. There are really a lot of scams out there!!

i have received more than a hundred of same scam emails stating that i have won millions and of lesser values. Soe are lotteries some are from the kin of the late president or whoever. Well, I just ignore these emails coz i know this are not for real.