If you win the lottery from the UK, do you have to send them money to send you your check? Scam?

Question

I have gotten alot of these emails lately. I've heard if you win anything, it shouldn't cost you nothing to get your prize. Is this true

Answer 1

You are right these are definitely scams. They have all of the signs of a scam. There is no UK (United Kingdom) Lottery, British Lottery, 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.



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



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

Answer 2

Yes. This is definitely a scam. Just consider --why would you have to send THEM money? BEFORE they send you the prize?

Answer 3

This is a big scam. You can safely delete the message.



If you did not enter, you did not win. If they want money for you getting your prize, they are scammers

Answer 4

if you got a letter from the UK lottery then it's a scam. the only lottery in the UK requires you to buy a lottery ticket in the UK. so if you didn't buy the ticket it's a scam, just like this e-mail i got:

POWERBALL LOTTO. BV

POWERBALL-WHEEL E-GAME 2006

Dear Consolation Prize Winner,



NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING



This email confirms that you have been notified by the POWERBALL INTER

LOTTO BV The Netherlands of your email lottery winning for 2006

Powerball Lotto - Wheel E-game held on 1st November 2006.



We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon

number which was selected among the 45 lucky consolation prize winners. Your

email ID identified with Coupon No.PBL2348974321 and was selected by

Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000

different email addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email

ID included among the 50,000 different email addresses where submitted

by our partner international email provider companies.



Prize Ref No.: PBL/CN/6654/CP

Lottery Group: Consolation Prize Group

Prize Amount: US $500,000 Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Only

You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by

contacting the Lottery Claims Processing Officer with your winning

information provided above.



Lottery Claims Officer:

Name: Mr,Frank Dickens

Email: [e-mail]

Tel: [phone] or [phone]

Fax: [phone] or [phone]



Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation

prize winning, we hope you will parttispate in our forth coming Powerball

Lotto-Wheel Email-games.



=================================================================================================

NON-RESIDENT AWARD CLAIM FORM GG

=================================================================================================



FULLNAME:....................................................................



FORWARDING

ADDRESSE:.........................................................



CITY/STATE:....................... COUNTRY OF

ORIGIN:.......................



MARITAL STATUS:.....................

NATIONALITY..............SEX...........



INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT NR:..................DATE OF

BIRTH:.................



TEL/FAX NR:

.........................OCCUPATION:..........................



CURRENT EMAIL:............................



=================================================================================================

WINNING INFORMATION

=================================================================================================



COUPON NR:..................................LOTTERY REF

NR:..................



LOTTERY DATE:..................CLAIMANT

SIGNATURE:...........................



=================================================================================================

Please you are to choose your payment option at which you want your

fund Paid to you; listed below is our payment modalities and option of

payment.



(1) TRAVELLING TO THE NETHERLAND FOR CASH COLLECTION (Send flight

itinerary



to confirm your arrival/appointment Date}:.........................



(2) BY COURIER SERVICE:.....................



(3) ELECTRONIC WIRE TRANSFER:..................





=================================================================================================

This email and its attachments are confidential and intended for the

exclusive use of the addressee(s). This email and its attachments may

also be privileged or protected by legal rules. If you have received this

by mistake please let us know by reply immediately and destroy the

email and its attachments without reading, copying or forwarding the

contents.



Congratulations once again from all our staffs in Uk and Netherlands on

your consolation prize winnings, we hope you will partake in our forth

coming Powerball Lotto-Wheel Email-games.



Yours truly,

Mrs.Briget Phillip,

(Lottery Coordinator)











DON'T FALL FOR IT, IT'S A SCAM!!!!!!

Answer 5

no don't send them any money,just ring camelot up,and they will sort it out for you.