[email protected] 10/12/05

[doddsredoubt]

Can anybody tell me that has anyone had an email from the [email protected] saying that my ticket has come up on the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes and that they have won a substantial lot of money.And to send an email to TNT in Whitchurch,Hants to find out how much it will cost me from TNT to send me a cheque for an amount of money,thankyou in advance for any help.

[quickman]

If you have entered a lottery, then your ticket will tell you how to check if you have won and how to claim your prize. Anything else is a con.

[doddsredoubt]

quickman,

Thankyou for your answer,no ticket was involved this was online lotto and to my knowledge does anyone know the TNT operative in the Whitchurch,Hants area .Thankyou.

[Oneeyedvic]

You really think a 'proper' company will use a hotmail account?

If you do, then I must confess that i am a Nigerian escaping from some regime and I am trying to put �1 Million pounds into your account.

If you would like to send me some money, I will tell you how you can access this money - address is: [email protected]

Just in case you dop have more money than sense, tnt couriers can be found here: http://www.tnt.com/country/en_gb.html" target="_blank">http://www.tnt.com/country/en_gb.html">http://www.tnt.co m/country/en_gb.html

[doddsredoubt]

oneeyedvic,

Thought this was a con had to check it out before putting it on to mainline AOL to warn others.Thanks got the message.

[Oneeyedvic]

:-)

[twiglet4frog]

something similar on watchdog the other week, where they contact u saying u have won and that u have to pay an amount to them to release the issuing of the cheque. One woman handed over something like �9,000 and was still waiting for them to issue it!

Official online websites would have domain name email address (which can also be a con but is slightly more believable than a free hotmail one that is hardly trackable)

[twiglet4frog]

PS- Number one rule for all competitions....You never need to pay more than the stake, i.e-�1 stake on lotto, 30p stamp on postcard, etc.

No competition at all will ask u for any payment to receive any prize. Once u have paid to enter that is the end to your costs and the providing of the prize etc is at their expense. Also, all prizes have to be clear as to what u will win before u enter or at least estimated closely and the actual prizes published soon after i.e-lotto results. Also all costs to u such as premium line calls to phone competitions have to be stated clearly as well as a company address.

Also dont ever enter these scratchcard prize lines in newspaper supplements that fall out the middle of the paper, where u scratch off and have to ring a premium number to claim your prize as these are set up by companies that like to take your phone call money (approx�5) and not deliever any such prize. They are constantly coming up in ICSTIS investigations and getting banned from operating premium numbers for non delivery of any prizes and yet they shut down and restart again under a new company name.

[doddsredoubt]

Thankyou to all who answered my question about hotmail scams appropriate action has now been taken.