mail scams Question And Answer
E-Mail Scams/ foriegn lottery?
Are these lotteries legitimate from the UK ?
I get four to six a week that say I am a winner of large amounts
of money and I did not enter any drawings that I know of.
Answers
Millions of people get emails like it everyday. It's a SCAM, and a fake lottery is just one of the many gimmicks the spammers use to get you to open their emails and to get you to give them your personal information... or even your money. By opening a spam email, you could be unleashing a virus on your computer or alerting the spammers that your email address is an active one. This means you could receive a flood of spam mail (more than you thought imaginable) in the future. Never NEVER open mails from people you don't know or trust!! But if you do open one, never reply to it and never click any links in it.
They are scams. I get a lot of those types of e-mail every day.
From personal experience I can tell you NO they are not legitimate, do not call the number given and never send money ... If you did not enter any drawings you could not possibly win anything...and it never costs money to collect prizes.
They are scams. Also if you get a letter stating that some one is sick or someone died and now you own a huge sum of money, go to google, type in the name in the search box. if it is truly a scam, there will be many sites stating that it is a scam.
