UK nationallottery emailed me that i won, based on my email address. Does this email lottery exist in UK?

Sorry, it's a scam and you are right to be suspicious. There is NO such thing as a lottery of email addresses.

It is impossible to win a lottery if you did not buy a ticket (which you knew). But also, there is no such thing as a lottery of email addresses! Also, I suspect from the way you asked this that you are not a resident of the UK. If you don't live in the UK, you can't play the UK National Lottery.

Read the National Lottery's site for more information about email scams which abuse their name.

There is no YAHOO & MSN Lotteries, UK (United Kingdom) Lottery, UK email lottery, Netherlands Lottery, British Lottery, Thunderball Online Lottery in the UK, Australian Lottery, Spanish Lottery, Yahoo Lottery, Microsoft Lottery (emmulating from the UK or anywhere else) or any other form of lottery you can win without buying a ticket. While some people might only copy and paste such email to their answer with a brief take on it, I will go into detail because I'm tired of this trash, as several of my friends have lost their a$$es to this scam. This is about as far away from legitimate as anything can get, whether it be a contest, promotion, or whatever.

There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades.

The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. If you even reply, you risk having your email inbox flooded. If you call these people, expect to be harrassed over the phone at all hours of the night! In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings in Nigeria are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy.

By the way, I have kind of become an anti-scam activists due to the fact that I have many friends who have had their identities and life savings stolen from them via these methods.

This is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question.

If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud. You can also read more about this at www.secretservice.gov and www.419eater.com!

If you have lost money you should report it to the U.S. Secret Service at www.secretservice.gov

Now you know the basics of Advance Fee Fraud, a multi-million dollar industry that costs honest people their life savings everyday. Be happy you weren't duped by this scam!

I hope this is helpful, because I could sure use a best answer! I would appreciate it!

Similar thing happened to my sister. She got a letter in the mail about a lottery/contest she won. On the envelope it said from somewhere in UK to whoever. It said she won $200,000. Lucky for her one of my other sisters worked at a bank and just had a meeting about these fake sweepstakes. The plan for these fake sweepstakes is the "Winner" to cash the check (which is actually a bounce.) and have it backfire on the depositor and have them have to pay the amount. My sister had then called the person on the letter and asked them questions in an angry and annoyed scary tone lol. The man noticed my sis was on to his scheme and quickly hung up. She called him once more and still no answer. So don’t fall for it and don’t do those stupid scams on the internet asking for email address, address and phone number.

Hope this helped = P

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

What does "using your e-mail address as your ticket" mean?

Really, it's a yes or no question: did you purchase (ie. pay them for) a ticket? If not, it's a scam. Businesses don't exist to hand random people money over the internet.

The reason these scams are so prevalent is because they're extremely easy to run. You can send out a ton of e-mails claiming that the recipient won, and you hope to get one person to respond and give identity/credit information in order to claim their "prize." You can then use the information to obtain lots of money, or sell it to someone else and they can use it to obtain lots of money.

Trying to reclaim your credit and identity after a scam like this takes lots of time and energy, and it can ruin your life for a while. Don't fall for it.

ignore the email my friend...someone is trying to con you....you cant win unless you buy a ticket...no pay no play...email me the address details you got the email from,i like to play with these clowns find out what i can about them then pass their details to the police

sorry hate to tell you there is no such site it is a big scam scam scam scam in dont eve give your e-mail addy to no one ever in no it does not exist

thats a scam!!!! dont reply, trust me

scam...better safe than sorry too

This is a scam!!!!!!