I need your help!!! ----Helping me judge authenticity of "Winning Information"

Never respond to anything coming to your e mail address asking for personal details like that - many scams about - you may feel that you have been very lucky when things like that arrive but in truth they are after your life - many people have had their identities stolen and consequently lost huge sums of money/their credit ratings etc. so be very careful

If you won a lottery that you never entered in the first place, it's a scam. Nobody is going to "choose" you to win some huge jackpot. I can't believe people acutally fall for this stuff!

I get loads of emails like that - mine are usually about lotteries in Holland or South Africa though. I suppose they know they wouldn't have much chance conning someone in the UK about the UK Lottery! Just delete it - it's rubbish.

lilyoffice, i have recieved that same email twice and believe me, it is a hoax! dont respond to it, trash it immediately. I have no idea where they get our email addresses but i believe that once you respond to them, they will aks you money as a sort of "handling" fee lol. it was kinda nice opening the email and seeing that amount..only if it were true lol

It's an elementary scam and very few people fall for it these days. I get about 3 of such mails per month and i don't even bother to open it. You can't win what you never played in the first place. Just ignore them.

I received the same notification. Then, a week later I received one from the Irish Lottery. I don't believe they are reputable, but I guess you could check with the BBA. As a matter of fact I also just today saw a case on Judge Judy involving something similar. One sister had gotten the other to cash the check for her at her bank. It turned out the check was phony so the bank was going after the sister to repay the money. Good luck!

Hi there,It is a total scam!! I recieved those lottering winnings in my email and then they are asking for your personal information.Dont fall for it.I will only trust lottery that i have actually played and not even online.

lol. its a scam dear. I have by now won the lottery from Ireland,U.K., microsoft, coca cola, yahoo, msn, lotto, germany you name it and I heave it in my inbox. I keep reporting spam and they keep sneding it by some name or the other. simply delete it. If yu give your info they will send another email that would open you e-gold or paypal account and they would take away that password of yours through it. If you do not believe me try it out but do not give you password to them.

Its most probably a scam and if they state you have a winning amount but ask you for a payment tell them to take it out of your winnings I promise you wont hear from them again tc be careful In this world nothing is for nothing theres a price to pay for everything. tc blessed be

It's a scam. I also received this email and they all want is to get your personal information so they may find a way to plunder your bankaccount. Just delete emails like these or report them to the proper authorities.

I also recieved this e mail discard it it is a scam do not give them any information on yourself How can we win a lottery we never entered??/throw it out and dont fall for it!

Those emails are a scam. if I had a cent for every time I've received one of those emails, I'd be a millionaire in my own right. They do it to try and obtain your personal information, which can then be used in identity theft. Delete the emails and any others you might get. They're all scams.

As everybody else say, be very very careful and do not give your particulars. This is phony. I have received such mails often. Do not get carried away. I am playing lottery in my country with licenced operators. So, if in your place you can do the same, do it, with offical "playing" offices. And hope that you will win.

That is called a lottery scam. They are usually run out of Nigeria or some other part of Africa. They want your personal information so that they can steal money from your bank account. You may also get an e-mail asking you to e-mail someone about moving money from a foreign country to your bank account. They say they'll give you a reward, but its a lie. They ask you for thousands to "free up" money. They keep taking from you until there's nothing left to give." You're smart for asking questions before taking action.

It's a scam. I actually got a letter in the mail with a check saying I won the "British Lotto" and it was a scam. Report it and then go on with your life. Be careful with these scams.

I have also got one email like that from this 'BRITISH UK LOTTERY" AND HAD INDICATED 50,000 EMAILS AND SAME WAY ASKED FOR MORE INFORMATION OF MY SELF WITH ALL YOU HAVE MENTIONED IT! wELL I HAVE REALLY CONSIDERED THIS EMAIL AS A SPAM! hAVE YOU TRIED TO REPLY THE EMAIL? TRY OUT AND FIND OUT BY YOURSELF! WHAT IS HAPPENING AFTER YOUR REPLY?

If it seems too good to be true then it more than likely is...this does sound like a con to me. Sadly this seems to be more and more frequent and even sadder still is the fact that more and more people are falling for this. It's the same kind of thing as some snail mail post I got recently that said I was a winner of £250,000. All I had to do was pay an administration fee and I'd get the money. Personally, I'd delete the email and carry on as if you never gor the message.

I get upto 10 mails like this every week. All these are Scams. They ask to pay some money to release your winnings. Don't falldown into these Scams. Beware about these fraud programs.

i posted the same content in my discussion three weeks ago but nobody responded. good you brought that issue again here. my answer is IT IS A SCAM. Who dared to give millions of euros when you have not given anything or joined in any lottery games? Just be careful in not giving any information especially bank details. this serves as a warning to all of us who are receiving spammed emails.

I am not in the UK but I have heard about this and was told it was a scam.