Irish lottery scam with Standard Chartered Bank.?Standard Chartered Bank is supposed to be the payor for the Irish Lottery I have won but never entered. Any one ever hear of this? | |
Irish lottery scam with Standard Chartered Bank.?Standard Chartered Bank is supposed to be the payor for the Irish Lottery I have won but never entered. Any one ever hear of this? | |
This is a scam. Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.
Check out these sites for further information :
http://scambusters.com
http://hoax-slayer.com/internet-scam...
http://police.west-tisbury.ma.us/int...
It is scam. Yahoo (insert any company name here, this answer works for all!) do not run an email lottery, if they did you could guarantee it would be advertised all over their home page. Check out these links and search answers to see how many people 'win' the exact same lottery every day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lottery_sca...
http://hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery...
Do not click on any links, the page you will be taken to will look authentic but is not
Do not send them a 'courier fee' or any other money
Do not hand over any bank details or passwords
Do report spam
Do delete
Remember there is no such thing as a free lunch. You cannot win a lottery if you haven ot bought a ticket. Anyone can set up an email account with Yahoo, they can use any combination of letters they choose. I could be '[[email protected]]' or '[[email protected]]' That doesn't mean that I am either of these and is fine as long as I don't try to use the address to mislead people. Don't be fooled by legitimate looking email addresses which end the same way as any other free account, don't be fooled by fictitious titles such as 'Dr' or 'Executive Director of Winner Claims'.
(I've answered this question so many times that I now keep this answer on my desktop and just copy and paste....that should give you a clue!)
Yup, it's some Nigerian sitting in front of an old Windows 3.1 system, hoping he can scam enough idiots so that he can buy a decent computer, and perhaps do something legal for a living.
Just a scam
How many times do we have to post answers for this.
There is no such thing as a free lunch!
If you reply they will take your money and perhaps your identity. A scam! CAN'T YOU SMELL IT.
Scam!!
Scam, scam, scam.
just another scam DONT fall for it!!!!
"I have one but never entered" MUPPET