Internet Fraud

Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 17:14:55 -0700 From:"Sweepstakes Lottery Inc." <0099@adelphia.net> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book Subject: Euromillions Lottery. Batch: 074/05/ZY369 This mail is to inform the user of this email account, that your email has won our prize 600,000. Thousand Pounds, from the Euromillions Lottery. You are to urgently respond to this notice so that we will confirm if this email account is still truely existing so we can forward you further details. To file for your claim, please contact our fiducial agent: Name.Dr Weaver. E-mail:lotteryinfo101@yahoo.com.hk Yours faithfully, Brian Hunt

Delete any e-mails claiming you have won money in a lottery these are scams!

Unless you have actually entered a lotto like this, it's a scam.. I always just delete them.. most likely there is a cookie in there that will keep track of your addy and you will recieve many more of these, when that cookie tells the originator that your addy is valid..

You haven't won the Euromillions lottery if you haven't entered the Euromillions lottery. Simple as. ps If you have entered, check the numbers and if you think you have won, call the helpline!

Use Span

;) surely you mean messages and not massages ;) First of all if you won the lottery do ya think they would contact you online - and they are easy to detect as they want you to email them with your details - opps you may lose what money you do have Read the sites below they tell you all about just this type of thing and what to do and not to do - dont ever answer one of those things its a scam and should be reported - as if you do reply it can lead to you losing money and or your identity being stolen The first link below is site that will tell you how to report it by email to them

I think you can probably figure out how to detect them. Anyone informing you via e-mail of winning a lottery THAT YOU DID NOT ENTER, is uh, not real. Duh. You really can't AVOID spam. You can mark it as spam and hope that decreases the amount you get. Best, DN

I am sure you can already tell it is a scam- but one good way to look at it- check the spelling and grammar. (this goes for all the phishing you get from banks etc as well) A legitimate company would not say "You are to urgently respond to this notice so that we will confirm if this email account is still truely existing so we can forward you further details". Pretty safe to say that this person is not fluent in English. Many of the phishing emails you get will have equally ungrammarical English, misspellings, etc that a legitimate sender, with a professional grasp of the english language, would not have.

They are all scams from low life ppl who prey on the vulnerable ....like my old Mum in Law who was convinced the letter she had was genuine .....she so wanted it to be true & convinced herself her son had bought her the ticket - I wish the authorities would put away all the ppl behind them.

You can't avoid them, we all get them. They are all fakes. Think about it, how can you win a lottery if you never bought a ticket ? It's tempting to believe them, even though you know they are fake, but please don't get sucked in. If you didn't buy a ticket - you didn't win the lottery - simple as that. If you bought a ticket, it will tell you on the ticket how to claim any prize.

If you didn't enter you cannot have won. It's a scam

Just google scam and see how many hits yoou get, there are millions of them and they are all aimed at taking your money.An excellent site giving advice on how to recognise and avoid scams is at www.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~wm/wm-lotto.html Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful.