I have been informed that im the Winner in Australian Yahoo lottery Program. SO i need to knew is that true ?

Question

i have been contacted from one of the YAHOO office telling me that i'm the winner of Lotto Lottery, give me this details so i would like to ask you about the reality of that your name was attached to ticket
number; 47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You are hereby have been approved a lump sum of US$200,000.00(DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02. then i have been contacted from the First Bank PLC in nigeria and then the Yahoo Office Rep called me many time his name is James Owen and he want me to send him money for processing the claims so what i shall do in that coz i recieve each day many phone calls from him and im so confused about that ...

Answer 1

This question has been on here almost everyday. It is a scam! I get thousand of these email every year. You can not win something you did not enter. No lottery would contact you by email. They want your money! There will be taxes and fees that you have to pay up front, then they will disappear. DELETE IT!

Answer 2

This is yet again another Nigerian scam. There is no YAHOO & MSN Lotteries, UK (United Kingdom) Lottery, Netherlands Lottery, British Lottery, Thunderball Online Lottery in the UK, Australian Lottery, Spanish Lottery, Yahoo Lottery Microsoft Lottery (emmulating from the UK or anywhere else) or any other form of lottery you can win without buying a ticket. While some people might only copy and paste such email to their answer with a brief take on it, I will go into detail because I'm tired of this trash, as several of my friends have lost their a$$es to this scam. This is about as far away from legitimate as anything can get, whether it be a contest, promotion, or whatever.



There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades.



The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. If you even reply, you risk having your email inbox flooded. If you call these people, expect to be harrassed over the phone at all hours of the night! In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings in Nigeria are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy.



By the way, I have kind of become an anti-scam activists due to the fact that I have many friends who have had their identities and life savings stolen from them via these methods.



This is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question.



If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud. You can also read more about this at www.secretservice.gov and www.419eater.com!



If you have lost money you should report it to the U.S. Secret Service at www.secretservice.gov



Now you know the basics of Advance Fee Fraud, a multi-million dollar industry that costs honest people their life savings everyday. Be happy you weren't duped by this scam!



I hope this is helpful, because I could sure use a best answer! I would appreciate it!

Answer 3

Wow!!!! Are you that stupid??? A Yahoo lottery out of Austraila, but the rep is calling your from Nigeria?? Not only does it sound like bull poo...it is. Nigeria's government is helping to push these kind of scams and they are very popular in Nigeria right now.

They actually have little businesses that have people getting on computers, sending emails, calling, trying to convice you that you have won something that you never even entered.

Look if you won a lottery in New Jersey..would they make you pay them a processing fee??? NO!!! Since when have you won a contest you didn't enter??? You don't

This is a scam..if you don't believe me than call your local FBI and they will tell you all about it.

If you give any money to these people it will be gone, and if you give out any of your bank information they will steal all the money from your account.

Again to sum it up..IT IS A SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

NIGERIAN SCAM















GO TO snopes.com





7. Urban Legends Reference Pages: Lottery Scams •••

Have you won a foreign lottery you don't remember entering?

...Scam: You've won a large sum of money in a foreign lottery you don't remember entering. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2002] De Lotto...

...Origins: In the fall of 2002, the venerable Nigerian Scam (versions of which have defrauded the unwary since the 1920s and currently infest the Internet...

...change from one entreaty to the next in the more common form of the Nigerian scam). Each lottery e-mail is rich in detail about when and where the...

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:23:56 GMT http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/lottery.asp

Answer 5

There are several of these scams running thru the internet. Have you ever won the lottery where they ask you to send money to win money?!?!?! NO! Have you ever applied to win an Australian lottery? Probably not. Tell them if they want the 557.00, to deduct it from your winnings and deposit the balance. Tell them due to the fact that there are so many internet scams going on you just want to be sure that this isn't one of them and anyone offering lottery money should be able to deduct any cost from those monies. I guarantee that you'll never hear from them again.

Answer 6

did you buy a ticket? did you sign up for a lottery? If the answer is no then its a scam. Most of them are scams so dont fall for it.

Answer 7

It's a scam!



"YOU HAVE WON US$1,200,343!" (with your name personalized somewhere in the headline). This is usually followed by a request to send money (US$30 or more) either as "payment tax" or a "processing fee" before you receive your "prize money".



How can you possibly win a prize in a lottery you never even entered in the first place? These kinds of offers are deceptive and worthless. So be warned.



Not only do the opportunists who operate these scams deceive thousands of people and steal money from them under false pretenses, but they tarnish the integrity of the entire lottery industry.



These Notices are Cleverly and Convincingly Written, Certainly Deceptive and Utterly Fraudulent.





AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO SCAM

The AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO scam email shown below claims that the recipient has won money in an international lottery. The email is an attempt to initiate a dialogue with potential victims and subsequently trick them into sending money to the scammers responsible. There is no "AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO" and no prize money.

Example of AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO Scam Email:



Sir/Madam



RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO held on the 23th of November,Your e-mail address attached to ticket number;12457851245212 with serial number 24512-LK235,batch number B142/245874120KYT, lottery reference number 452632 and drew from lucky numbers 58-7-27-46-47-69 which consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of $1,000,000.00 only,payable in cash credited to security credited file numbers;YHT/24586/2354/JPA.



CONGRATULATIONS!



Your fund is now deposited with our fiduciary agent (UK BOND) insured in your name. In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants who take advantage of our name and this programme to reap our winners. We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year (2004) high stakes where you stand a chance of winning up to 12,00,000.00, we hope that with a part of your prize you will participate.



To begin your claim process, please contact our UK paying agent immediately



MR. SAMUEL JONES

HM JONES(credit & finance) UK LTD.

DIRECT:[phone]

PHONE: [phone]

FAX: [phone]

EMAIL: [e-mail]



Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 11th NOVEMBER, 2004. After this date, the prize award will be returned to the AUSTRALIAN INTER-LOTTO . Be informed that 5% of your lottery winning belongs to charity organisation. As was stated in the policy of our organisation, no institution/person has right to remove/deduct money out of the total sum won till it gets to the beneficiary.



Please call your agent as soon as you receive this letter and remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all your correspondence with HM JONES Uk



REFERENCE NUMBER: 1072896743AS

BATCH NO: 443/04

Congratulations once again from all our staff Sincerely.



SUSAN DAVIES

LOTTERY COORDINATOR

NATIONWIDE INTER-LOTTO UK

SOUTH PARK BUSINESS CENTRE

310 GREEN LANE, ILFORD,

IG1 1XT, ESSEX.

Phone: [phone]

PLEASE ALL INSTRUCTIONS ARE STRICTLY OBSVERED AND ANY WINNERS BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE SHOULD IGNOR THIS NOTICE AS NOT QUALIFIED FOR THIS CLAIM.





Apart from Lottery and Sweepstakes, there are also other scams circulating by mail and email. One of them is the so-called African "419" scam-named after a relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code.



The scams involve a number of schemes, all designed to dupe victims into shelling out varying amounts of money. The conmen typically send letters through mail, fax, or the internet, claiming to have acquired or inherited large sums of money, sometimes purporting it to be "excess government or bank funds". They seek the victim's help to supply a foreign bank account number to be used to transfer the "funds" out of Africa.



The victim is promised a huge commission in return. These offers are bogus and the victims are often duped into paying large sums in up front payments, purportedly as taxes or fees in order to transfer the funds.

Answer 8

Send nothing but an IOU stating that you will pay him $10,000 as soon as you verify and deposit your winnings.



Bet you don't hear from him again.



Imagine if it were on the level and instead of $49, he would earn $10,000 - I strongly suspect you'd hear from him again - and soon!



Don't wait by the phone for a reply.

Answer 9

Sound like a scam..any time they want money you will never see a dime .. call the police now.. they will not leave you alone .. they think they have you hooked don't fall for it.. lotto's do not do business like that...

Answer 10

yes it's true. and like a good obedient moron, please furnish them with your personal inso, SSN, bank account info and don't forget to send them a $49 check for processing the winning ticket. What a lugan !!!