Spam messages saying you are entitled to claim millions of dollars
By ellovire
@ellovire (409)
August 8, 2011 8:37pm CST
Hi mylotters, have you experienced getting email messages saying you have won in a lottery, or you are chosen to inherit millions of euros, or someone asking for you bank account so they can transfer partial of their own billions to your account?
I have been receiving these messages all the time. The first time I got one was the first time I learned how to create an email address, that could be traced for like 12 years ago or so (not sure though about how far it has been). And up to this day, spam messages like these flood my inbox and spam folder.
What is their purpose of sending out massive emails like that? Have you received any of these messages?
10 responses
@katrinapaz (2436)
• Philippines
9 Aug 11
yes i have received messages like these. I think they are made by scammers. some people will believe that they really won and then they will communicate with the scammers. the scammers will then ask for money for them to mail or send the prize and after the money is given they disappear like bubbles.
@ellovire (409)
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9 Aug 11
Funny right? Because how can you win in the first place if you did not enter any contest, or placed bet in a lotto, or something like that? And here they are, telling you that you have won from some electronic raffle, blah blah. These people have nothing to do but mess up with our lives :)
@katrinapaz (2436)
• Philippines
10 Aug 11
right. messing up with our lives and our finances. some scammers will say that their names were just automatically chosen or their numbers were automatically chosen and some people sadly will still believe their lie.
@voracious (624)
• Philippines
9 Aug 11
Yes I'm always experiencing that everyday in fact I always add those to my blocklist so they can't spam anything like that because I believe it's a scam and no one will give a million dollar to a random persons.
@cableman67 (872)
• United States
10 Aug 11
I myself am getting tired of all the e-mails like this that I have been getting. When they first started it wasn't too bad but now I get them all the time pumping up my e-mails so I just have more trash to go through.
Surely no one ever falls for it, but who knows somebody must or they wouldn't keep on sending them. They come up with a new angle on the same old crap every day.
@ellovire (409)
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11 Aug 11
My nephew who is twelve years old almost believed that! He got a message like that (he already has email account because his daddy is away and emailing is their means of communication). Good thing he does not have any bank account, and his mother immediately enlightened her that these messages he is getting are all scam.
@ReViewMeMedia (3785)
• United States
10 Aug 11
What they want your bank account for, is to steal your identity and your money. Fortunately, I never get those kind of emails.
@ellovire (409)
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11 Aug 11
Just a thought, since they say they are asking my account number so they can transfer their money (or the money that I won in a lottery), what if I give an account number that does not have any money on it? I mean, I will withdraw first my money, or keep the balance to it's minimum, then send out my account info? By then they cannot steal any money from it, because it does not have any in the first place?
@acrossnation (773)
• Malaysia
9 Aug 11
Hi, yes i use to get that type of emails, that was when i started to get hooked with the internet. I use to go to sites that offer rewards especially the one with pop up windows. Also sometimes the games sites are very good to send this kind of emails. Whatever i hope you did not reveal your account details to them.
@kaizer22x (145)
• Philippines
9 Aug 11
Yeah... me too... i have experience that one..
I have received about 10 spam messages in my email..
But I tried to check or search for it if it is legal and true before i read the entire emails...
@brew2x (3094)
• Philippines
9 Aug 11
I've had a lot of those as well and keep on receiving some until now. I think what they want is to scam people. They are hoping that someone would fall for that. If you will respond to them then they would probably ask some of your personal information and maybe even your bank accounts details. They will make you believe that they will be needing that in order to transfer the money.
@ellovire (409)
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9 Aug 11
There must be some information campaign for others who do not understand that these are all spam messages and are meant to be deleted right away. The message can really be so inviting, and I am sure there are some who will be tempted to give away their information in exchange of the lump sum of money they claim will be transfered to the bank account.
@itsrainingmoney (10)
• India
9 Aug 11
The problem is not only with our email accounts. Nowadays there are similar messages delivered on mobiles via sms also. Till date I've received 4-5 sms saying you've won millions of pounds on my mobile. Beware everybody. Don't waste your hard earned money on such emails.
@DoctorDidi (7018)
• India
9 Aug 11
I am sure everyone having an email address or a mobile phone has the experience of getting such email messages of winning a lottery, so there is nothing to worry. Just delete the message from your email inbox and it is better not to open it as there is every possibility of virus attack from such spam email messages.
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
9 Aug 11
sure i have recived spam email like that, i usually ignore them. There's one time that a spam email really bother me because somehow they use my email address at yahoo to send their spam.. i don't understand how they do this but i'm thinking what if my friends recived their spam and thinking that it was from me and they believe what the email said. After that i sent yahoo an email explaining the situation and now i never recieve spam email from my own account again.
