I've won national lotttery???!!!

FatAndy

I got one these e-mails yesterday. I was a bit suspicious as to why they wanted to know what my 'ocupation' was so I binned it straight away.

yorksrabbit

As there's still a lot of confusion about unexpected prize winnings, here are the facts:

1) You will never win anything in any lottery or prize draw where you buy yourself a ticket.

2) You will never win anything in any kind of competition which you remember entering and which you look forward to winning.

3) You will always win in any lottery, prize draw or competition for which you never bought a ticket and cannot ever remember entering.

Where (3) is concerned, the total prize value won by all MSE members is £413,723,977,000.

The only reason we are still posting here instead of enjoying the £multi-million lifestyles we have acquired as a result of never entering any competition that we can remember and never buying a Lottery ticket is because life gets really tedious with so much money.

So coming on here to exchange views about falling house prices, Experian credit ratings, nasty bailiffs, redundancy, credit card rip-offs and crap computers from PC World is the best way of keeping ourselves amused.

Hope this helps the OP.

amersall

mwilletts wrote: »

nhs website? !!!!!!?? Are you ill?

no the op isnt ill .... i have had several emails from nhs, microsoft pepsi etc saying i have won money, the scammers think if they use reputable company names you are more likely to respond, this scam can bring misery to a lot of people but we are all only human

Tozer

I really can't believe anyone still falls for these.

Blakespops

Crazy_Jamie wrote: »

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/uk-national-lottery.html

As if you actually needed proof that this was a scam.....

Always so funny that these multi million £ companies tend to use yahoo, hotmail etc for e-mail address not their own. as if that in itself is not a huge enough clue.

markelock

Tozer wrote: »

I really can't believe anyone still falls for these.

plain and simple greed.

or greed plain and simple.

I can't remember which. to be honest, it doesn't matter, I've just won the spanish national lottery!

advent1122

Tozer wrote: »

I really can't believe anyone still falls for these.

...and without doing 30 seconds of research before sending off thousands of pounds in "administration fees".

competitionscafe

What are you talking about? I am currently having a great time here in the Bahamas enjoying my $40 million lottery winnings with my beautiful new Russian wife. Next week some lovely chap from Nigeria is lining up a juicy financial transaction for me and I will be even richer. I love the internet which has brought me all of this for nothing.


















* posted on 01 April 2009

jaygrunt

Tozer wrote: »

I really can't believe anyone still falls for these.

Are you implying that you HAVE fallen for these in the past :rotfl:

Tozer

jaygrunt wrote: »

Are you implying that you HAVE fallen for these in the past :rotfl:

Not sure how that implies that I have at all.

But, happy to say that I haven't.

Unfortunately, many people still do.