why do they keep sending me e-mails saying i won the lottery in the UK?does any one else get these?

Millions of people get emails like it everyday. It's a SCAM, and a fake lottery is just one of the many gimmicks the spammers use to get you to open their emails and to get you to give them your personal information... or even your money. By opening a spam email, you could be unleashing a virus on your computer or alerting the spammers that your email address is an active one. This means you could receive a flood of spam mail (more than you thought imaginable) in the future. Never NEVER open mails from people you don't know or trust!! But if you do open one, never reply to it and never click any links in it.

welll the short answer is they are spam... but the long answer involves a dateline episode in which they did a special on these kinds of emails... there are two major kinds... one is that you have won a lottery and need to pay some handling fee to get the money... the other kind, is when you need to recieve a check so that they can get money into the country... this is totally wrong... you send them the cash... the check bounces and you pay and can go to jail... its both horrible and a total rip off most of these emails are coming from oversees where it is hard to actually track them down... a large majority are based in africa in businessess that do this professionally scam people in america who are too trusting...

Its part of a scam that is based primarily out of Nigeria. You should catch some of those Dateline shows regarding online fraud kind of scary in some ways.

Just like everyone said," they're fasle emails." I like to check these kinds of things on a popular hoax site called Snopes.com

They say if it's too good to be true, chances are it's not true. It is a scam to get your information, so just delete these kind of e-mails.

Do not be fooled by these people.

We all get them. Mark them as Spam and move on.

They send them because "there's a sucker born every minute." P.T. Barnam

Yes, I get them all the time. They are not true.

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