An Australian lottery last night had a first prize of eighty million dollars (Australia US66M). There were two winners. One thought the email received this morning was a scam, and deleted it. How would you react if you hd a similar email in your inbox?
[question posted by mipen2006]
responses and comments:
Hahahaha I'd delete it too:( No seriously though I guess I'd check everything like the web address etc. If I thought it was actually from the Lotto company then I'd start to get a bit crazy:):) [Jaxsky]
The thing that surprises me is, he must have known he had a lottery ticket in that draw, so he should have checked the lottery site for the numbers. That's what I would have done. Thanks for the response, and don't delete unless you're sure. [mipen2006]
Oh yes, I have all this emails in my account almost everyday.Sounds really good to be true.But it is all scam.And I am not believing on this kind of scam.I really hate those people who are doing this. [ybonjoc]
It wouldn't happen to me. I'm so anxious to see if I have won, I check the numbers on the lottery site. Never any luck though. [mipen2006]
I've heard about this! You can't blame the winner who deleted the email; I would too. I receive around 10 a day claiming I have won huge amounts of cash and of course they are all scams considering that I never took part on their so called 'lotteries'. The winner from last night was probably justified in thinking it was a fraud. Thank goodness he or she learnt later that it was legit; can you imagine if the winner had lost the winnings because they deleted the email? That would have been tragic! [paula27661]
The news story didn't say whether his browser sorted the email as junk, or he just deleted it from his inbox. We all get spam emails about money, so you can understand it happening. However, whenever I have a lottery ticket, I'm on the lottery website the next morning. Thanks for your response paula, and have a good weekend. [mipen2006]
im used to receiving those emails& the first time i received them..i did reply& they told me to pay $1200 to receive $10.5M dollars in a lottery that i didnt participate in& i thought what a jerk i was! i dint participate in a google lottery& i have won!.. [deewinc]
Hey deewnnc, so you can imagine the surprise the guy got when he found out later it was no scam! [mipen2006]
If it was sent by lotto that I'm taking part of, then I would start investigating the letter and stuff. If I would surely know that I haven't took part of such lotto's, I would delete it. It's like those pop-up ads for me: "Congrats! You won our weekly prize of 52351216$!" [Biomechanoid]
Thanks for awarding me a best response too!:) [Biomechanoid]
Hi my friend Mipen. I often get scams in my emails and I can get worried out them. For example I got two from someone pretending to be Pay Pal and E Bay. It said I had won a laptop for £150. Oh what I had thought because I didn't buy a laptop. I checked my account with Pay Pal straight away. All was fine so what a scam. If I got an email to say I had won 40 million I would think it was a scam. I would leave the email alone or delete it I imagine. [maximax8]
Hello max, yes we all get scam and phish mail trying to get our banking details, but this guy must have known he had a ticket in the lottery, so you think he would at leats check the validity of the sender before deleting it. I have had the Pay Pal and E Bay scams also. Thank you for participarting, and take care. [mipen2006]
If i did not play any lottery i will know it is a scam but if i did play one,i will be the happiest person on the face of the earth [exceld3ick]
That's my point, we all get scams about winning millions, but if I had a lottery tocket, I'd look into it, that's for sure. [mipen2006]
Chances are good that I would just delete it too. There are so many scams out there and fake "winners" that it's tough to know what's real and what's not. I get winner emails all the time telling me I've won something or other, but they're all just scams. What happened to the good old days of sending snail mail letters to inform people of their winnings? That sounds like a safer way to me since you rarely see fake winner letters from a lottery thing (or I don't around here, anyway). [phyrre]
Hi phyrre, they do advise winners by snail mail, and also in person. They would have called the winner, had he left a phone number, but he left his email. Everyone gets emails about winning millions, and most of us just delete them, including me. However, if I had a current lottery ticket, I think I'd be alittle more careful. Thanks for your input. [mipen2006]
It would depend whether this Australian really do buy a lottery ticket and they said they would notify him by email. In that case, they would have had his id number and it would have been in the Australian papers. Also if it is a scam, then he would not know until he went to pick it up and if he had to pay a lot of money to get it, then he would know it was not real. I would assume it was a scam because I never entered the contest. Now if it were true, the person might have entered the lottery without knowing about it either when purchasing something and there was a notice on the cash receipt that said "this has entered you in the ===lottery," and since he paid cash, he threw the receipt away. So it could have been he entered the lottery but did not realize it. [suspenseful]
Hi suspensful, the psrticulsr lottery is conducted all over Australia, four nights a week, I think. You have to go online, or to a registered outlet and place your numbers, or have the computer select them for you, so he should be aware he had a ticket. I have a ticket for Saturday's $29 million draw, but they don't have any address for me, but I will check their website on Sunday morning. Thank you for your participation. [mipen2006]
Hi, I keep getting such email either from the US or UK everyday. I remember when I first got such a email i persuaded the email. I wrote to them as to how to claim the prize money. They wrote back asking for certain details like name, address, telephone number and country. I had given all those details. Then came the actually truth about these emails. They wrote back asking to deposite as certain thousand dollars to a certain account towards insurance and processing fee for amount won by me. That is when I understood that these emails are just a hoax to rob simple people. Then after a couple of days I read about these email in the New Paper called The Time Of India and these companies send such emails just to rob simple people cause someone had infact deposited the said money in the account and got nothing. They even lost the amount they deposited. So people never give into these emails just delete them immediately before they get the greed into you. Regards, Lawrence J Nicholas =================== [larrynicholas]
Hi larrynicholas, yes everyone gets those scam emails from scammers trying for easy money. However , if I had a legit lottery ticket, in a country wide lottery, I think I'd check out the sender of such an email. If I didn't have a ticket, I would delet it, as I do with several every month. Thank you for taking part in the discussion. [mipen2006]
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I delete stuff like that. It is ALLWYAS scams.. at least that was what I thought.. ha ha ;) poor dude.. Anyway, there are allways stories in the newspaper, television or so about people who have been trciked because they thought it for once in a while was true. Instead of a millionaire - they loose even more money. [surfacesur]
Hey surfacesur, we all get that kind of scam mail, and we delete it, but this was a national lottery, where he has gone online to purchase tickets, and leaves his email for noticication. Now surely he knew the draw was on Tuesday night, so any notification would be the next day. Wow, then on Wednesday, there is the email saying he has shared first prize. I would check the senders ID at least. Thanks for your reply, [mipen2006]
Well, if he deleted the email, I'm sure it'll still be in the trash folder, wouldn't it? Unless of course, he deletes everything in the trash as well.. But if I found something like that in my inbox, I'll delete it. Cause for one, I don't buy any lottery tickets.. And if I do, they will not send emails.. LOL [quarvalsharess]
The guy still got his $40m. He was told in person and was very cool about the whole thing. I hope I'm next. [mipen2006]
well i have recieved any such mail in my spam then probabaly i will delete without even looking at it. In inbox though if i find the name such that i have participated in any lottery with the same name only that would make me open that mail or else i will just click and send it to my spam folder. [esteria]
Hi esteria, most people would do the same as you. However, this man had gone online to purchase his lottery numbers, and surely he knew when the lottery was, so I think he should have shown a little more dilligence before deleting it. I'm sure I would. Thanks for responding. [mipen2006]
I get those kind of emails a lot. I really think they are scams. Some are from Japan, Nicaragua, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, etc. Gosh! One time I was curious so I checked on it....see if it's for real. Then as soon as you read the email....It says that you need to email back your full info. Including your bank info. That's ridiculous!!! One email from Thailand says that you need to send like $800 for a plane ticket. LOL I wonder if anyone actually fall for that scam. $800 is a lot of money. [Shar1979]
Hi Shar, we all get those mails. But this guy went online to purchase his ticket, so you would think he would look a little closer at the mail the morning after the lottery to determine the validity of the sender. Anyway, he got his money. The sad part about those scams is that some people fall for them, and send money. Thanks for responding. [mipen2006]
LOL! this is funny but a good reality check...I actually dont read any email saying I won specially when it is automatically directed to the spam mail. I guess if that happens I will really be pissed off... but wont be able to do anything else than that because it is already deleted without me even opening it. Mipen2006, now your making my mind think that from now one I still should read it before deleting emails. hahhaa [jaizhi]
Hi jaizhi, don't waste your time on those scam mails, unless of course you have bought a lottery ticket, then chack the senders address. Thanks for your input. [mipen2006]
Well I always experience that situation, but I have learned one thing, never ever believe with FREE internet lotto.. How will you win money if you didnt spend anything? There are so many lotto scams in the net [migoyy]
Hi migoyy, I don't believe in free internet lotteries, but this man bought a ticket, or tockets, in a national lottery, which everyone in Australia knows is legit. He went online to the lottery site and puschased his ticket, and paid for them at the same time. Surely, when the email was in his inbox the next day, he should have checked the validity of the sender. I have got a ticket in a AUD20 million draw on Saturday night, and I'll be checking my numbers first thing Sunday morning. Thanks for your response. [mipen2006]
I hate scams. I will probably delete it also and inform others about this scam [owelm0408]
Well, at least he got his money, all forty million, and guess what he did. He went off to work. [mipen2006]
that was powerball, was it? I read that two winners one is in SD,one is from mel.Luky~~ I bought 12 games but.......... if I received the email like that, deleted it of course [cocototo]
Hi cocototo, yes it was powerball, and delete it was what the man did too. If I had tickets I would at least check the validity of the sender before deleting it. [mipen2006]
Yeah, i'm pretty lucky. I win at least 20 lotteries a day! All they ask for is my SSN and my home address! Sounds pretty legit, right? Not so much. The most amusing one is when I got a phonecall telling me I won a free trip to las vegas. The most amusing part is when they were like. "You don't believe me? Let me go get my manager." & you could hear the guy put the phone down and pick it back up and try to act in a different accent. He wanted a whole lot of personal information. I laughed and hung up. It's sucky because if I ever do win something for real i'll never know if it's through an email or a phonecall. Plus, it's a pretty dead giveaway when I win contests that I never even enter in that they're scams. I don't really enter in that many anymore, most try to spam the crap out of you or sell your information to like. hundreds of people without your consent. [LouieWpHs04]
Hey Louie, that's full on. Fancy changing his accent to make you think it's his manager. Funny thing though, this email was legit, the guy actually won AUD80 million! Thanks for the story. [mipen2006]
id regret it so badly, like but usually these sites are scam though! [djaaumthemoneymaker]
That's it! This wasn't a scam, the guy actually won AUD40 million! [mipen2006]
i would think twice, trice actually. like how did this happen when i have not even joined any contest of some sort?!? lol i used to get emails and cellphone messages like that. i even won two cars in one week! w00t you will know it when it is scam. because the true ones will call you and maybe send telegram. and will never ask for money have a nice day. ann [tigeraunt]
my eyes tricked me. lol na. i wasnt analizing what i read. w00t in that case, it is very good. happy mylotting annhappy [tigeraunt]
I would have likely deleted it too, because 99.99999999999999999999999% of them are spam and scam. I actually did receive and e-mail saying I won $100 a couple of weeks ago and it was for real- because I signed up with the place, and I have been paid before by them. [K46620]
Good for him, hopefully he did not delete it. [K46620]
I would probably have done the same thing. I get e-mails all the time saying I have won millions of dollars and I am almost certain they are all Nigerian scams! So I think you done the right thing! [erikmama]
Would you, if you bought a lottery in an eighty million dollar the day before? That is what makes this man's actions strange. The email was real, but he deleted it along with all the other scam. Thank you for your reply. [mipen2006]
If it was from OZ Lotteries, it's no scam. I have been receiving their emails for a couple of years now. I joined up back in '07. They regularly send you updates and when you first sign up you get some free lines to play. After that you pay but they are not expensive. Haven't done that yet but may get a chance one day soon. Even had my sister in Aus play some numbers for me last night. Not sure if we were lucky. And two people DID win one of the big ones a couple of weeks back. Was all over our news. The lucky beggars. [Polly289]
You are so welcome. Give it a go. Can't hurt. Best of luck [Polly289]
I do get these scam emails from time to time as most do! But if you had a ticket in that particular draw and you know that they have your email address, surely you would check it out! LOL I am in Australia and these scam emails that I get are always from some lottery or inheritence in Europe or Africa, never from Australia! Maybe the winner is not very confident online! I know some people who are not very experienced computer users and are scared of everything online being some sort of security breach to them...LOL :-) [RawBill1]
Thank's RawBill, scam emails are a problem for all. However, you'd think if you had purchased a lottery ticket on line, and the next day after the draw, you get an email, you would at least check it out. I can relate to your last point, and fall into the inexperienced category. Thank's for your input. [mipen2006]
You are victimize from a scam if you reply that troll emails from somewhere we don't know who is person beyond that emails. If you reply the reply message is from another location...when you give info a message is from another location but the truth is that is from african peninsula...This is now called african email. [aerous]
Yup! We need to be careful in all the emails that we receive. We must not believe immediately to avoid being a victims. You can visit http://eCa.sh/avoidscam to know all the scam tricks from the Internet. Have a great day! [aerous]
I would too delete it.I would not take the chance to give personal details to a lottery i didn't even participate in.I also have chances of loosing money from my account.If that case happened i would say what have i done?I should have contacted the person to get the money deposited in my bank account.sadsad [vicky30]
The scams and pfishers are trying to get our bank details, so they can clean out our bank accounts, but this guy did have a ticket, and did win, so his email was legitimate. Thanks for responding. [mipen2006]