I received an email from the UK saying I won car and money. How do I find out if this is a scam?

a courier service is supposed to deliver the check and I was told there would be a fee. Has anyone else had an experience with this kind of email?

I received an email from the UK saying I won car and money. How do I find out if this is a scam?
Same kind of scam as below.


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:its a scam
Reply:go ahead. you will quickly find out if its a scam.
Reply:i smell a SCAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! do not give out credit card details or your address or ANYTHING!
Reply:no
Reply:If there is any kind of fee it is a scam. If you have to cash the check and send the money anywhere, it is a scam.... if you get the check take to your local authorities.
Reply:its a scam...the check is go be 4 like 20 dollars and the fee will be about 25
Reply:Almost everyone receive it, not only you.
Reply:Never open e-mail from someone you don't know!! It is a scam!! No one gives away money and cars to strangers. Now they have your email address and know you are a sucker. Expect lots more email from them as they try to get money and personal information from you.
Reply:The best thing to do about it is nothing.





But if you really want to know you follow the instructions.





Then you will know that you shouldn't have wasted your time.
Reply:Tell then u will pick it up in its branch office.if they hav any
Reply:I get at least one a day, along with emails about prospective jobs involving cashing a money order, Ebay or Paypal security issues, a person unknown to me who has died and left me riches beyond compare, and Nigerian oil companies and rich folk who want me to invest their money. Face it, if you didn't enter a contest, there is no way in the world you won it. Do like I do by dumping it in the spam, and laugh about how stupid these con artists are.
Reply:U dont need to find out bcoz it always is a scam .
Reply:Its a scam. Run dont walk away from it.!!!
Reply:Oh yes, my police department has seen this scam a thousand times. You go ahead and send the "fee" - but don't hold your breath waiting for delivery of your "winnings" because they'll never come to you. Delete the e-mail and go buy a lottery ticket.
Reply:its a scam, if its too sounds good to be true it probably is...
Reply:The fact that it came by email is enough to tell you it is a scam!
Reply:its fake - almost always is





peace out :)
Reply:It's a scam... I get about fifty a week
Reply:Don't fall for it.
Reply:anything you win is free no cost if they ask for shipping fee or any money for anything refuse it .It is a scam.I have received many things like that in mail and when they ask for any fee I tear it up and throw in trash and advise you to do that.If it sounds to good to be true it usually and almost always is.Hope this helps

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