Is UK NATIONAL LOTTERY a real company?

If you received it by EMAIL then it is a SCAM
Is UK NATIONAL LOTTERY a real company?
That and all others like it are SCAMS.


Doesn't it seem funny that they would send you an email saying you had won a lottery even though you hadn't entered the lottery?


How can you get something for nothing?


What they are doing is hoping some fool will respond to their emails and then the UK Lottery (or whoever they are) will ask for an amount of money up front to cover the costs of sending a check.


Then, when you get the check (if you do!), it's a bogus check. You can't cash it. You can't get your money back. You can't believe how stupid you were to fall for this scheme.


Remember: If something seems to good to be true, it probably is.


I would ignore every one of these scams including people from foreign countries asking for handouts or claiming to hold large sums of money that you can claim as a distant relative.


PHONY! PHONY! PHONY!
Reply:Look at the questions I have answered on this site in my info. There are so many winners there could not be enough money to pay them all.There is no International Lottery.This is a Nigeria scam. Yahoo/MSN, U.K. and Australian lotteries, football lotteries from the same counties, Global-Link, World Poverty, Microsoft, Free Lotto, which now seems to have it's own people answering gambling questions on this site claiming they have won which is a total lie, and hundreds more. I am a retired Police Officer that has years of experience investigating Internet scams and frauds. This is an old one. The common link to them getting your email is on line surveys. Yahoo does not give it's stock holders money away nor does it give it's email subscribers address's to lotteries. The only way to win in a lottery is to buy a ticket, if you didn't you could not possibly win. Here is the website of the 17 nation law enforcement task force that investigates cross border Internet crime. You may file a complaint there. www.econsumer.gov. Also go to www.ripoffreport.com and browse complaints and you will find many having the same doubts as yourself about these scams. Below is a typical scam and how they work it. They just go under a thousand different names. They are asking you to send a prepayment to collect your winnings and they want you to send it by a money wire service. Lotteries do not just pick your name out of thin air, and just so happen to have your email also. No Internet service provider gives their email list out to lotteries. If you did not pay to play you could not possibly win.





recieved letter of winning $65000.00 Pacific Player International lotteries,please contact claims agent miss linda strong at 204-951-7582. Second letter came with a check for the amount of $2,470.00 To deposited in my bank account for processing fee,a week later check cleared my bank. I contacted my claims agent over the phone she advise me to wire the balance of $2,341.00 to a Mr Edward Culwell in New York,New York.I called miss linda strong to advise her of the western union confirmation number,to date can not get in touch with linda strong just her voice mail, I know now that it was all a RIP-OFF and now Iam in the hole with $2,470.00 with my bank.... Please send HELP... THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Reply:my numbers are 12 36 12 6 1 8
Reply:It might be, but the official operator of the UK National Lottery is Camelot.





I suspect that you've received one of these "CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE WON blah blah" emails. Ignore it, it's a scam.