should i pay to mr mark tommy by western union transfer or he didn't exist?

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100% scam.

There is no money for you.

There is no Yahoo, Nokia, Shell, BBC, Google, Coca-Cola, MSN, Microsoft, BMW or any other company in the entire world that sponsors a lottery that notifies winners via email, phone call or text.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

Any phone number that starts with +44-74 or anything similar is not based in the United Kingdom. It is from a UK based cell phone redirect service that can be answered by anyone anywhere in the world. It is a favorite service of scammers who want to pretend to be in the United Kingdom but are really half way around the world from there.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lottery official" and will demand you pay for made-up fees and taxes, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

If you google "fake yahoo lottery", "lotto Western Union fraud" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam....Show more

Your first mistake was to make any reply to this scam. Now you are permanently marked as a sucker and they have sold your email and phone number to others already.

They are not trying to give you money but rather take your money, a bit at a time. You will never receive anything they promise, just more promises and fees. This could go on for months. Just when you believe you are about to get paid a big chunk, something else will "come up" and prevent it, such as yet another fee or formality.

Under NO circumstances should you ever have to pay any "fees" to obtain money that is owed to you.
Period. A legitimate company will simply deduct the fee from whatever it is they are paying you and send you the rest. Again, you do not have to pay out of your own pocket. EVER.

DO NO SEND ANY MONEY TO THESE CRIMINALS. Immediately report the fraud to your local police so they can investigate and perhaps trap them or give you advice on how to make them stop....Show more

This is 100% a SCAM
DO NOT reply and block these criminals from contacting you again

There is NO such thing as an International Remittance File and that address they gave you in London does not even exist. There is NO such street as Rail-ton Road.

It's against the law for anyone to charge you money to receive money

If you were gullible enough to give these criminals your real name, home address, birthdate and other personal info you need to contact your local police...Show more

This is a scam. You would be so terribly foolish to even believe this kind of story.

Don't you even know enough to check out such scams on the internet? there is so much warnings about these, I am dumbfounded that people still fall for them....Show more

Ignore it.

It is a scam.

You did not win anything.

This is called an "Advance Fee Scam"....Show more