CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON($250,000.00USD)CHEQUE BY H.S.B.C BANK=Scam??

CAN SOMEBODY OUT THERE TELL ME IF THIS IS A SCAM OR NOT! I'M 90% CONVINCED IT IS, BUT WOULD STILL LIKE SOME SORT OF CONFIRMATION. IRECEIVED THIS E-MAIL TODAY STATING THE FOLLOWING: "We happily announce to you the draw of 2006 Euro-Afro Asian Sweepstakes Lottery International Program held on the 15th March 2007 in United Kingdom. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number xxxxxxxxxx with serial number xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and draw lucky number:xxxxxxxxxxxxxx which subsequently won you lottery in the 3rd category of file number:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$250,000.00 (Two hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) in Cheque.





All participants in this lottery program were selected randomly through a computer ballot system, drawn from individual email addresses from all search engines. Your e-mail address was picked by the automated computer ballot system, which has been programed for this random selection.

CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON($250,000.00USD)CHEQUE BY H.S.B.C BANK=Scam??
There are many Nigerian scams that are showing up nowadays. Please read the following carefully:





I can guarantee you that if you listen to these punks you will lose every bit of money you have and never receive any prize money as such a prize does not exist.





Another new popular scam is the lottery scam:








There is no Overseas Lottery International, YAHOO %26amp; MSN Lotteries, Yahoo online dept., UK (United Kingdom) 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. The Euro Asian whatever you talk about is a perfect example of how you can hand your lifesavings over to some fat-sweaty nigerian con-man (and your i.d. too).





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!
Reply:I agree its always Nigerian Scum bags who are determined to rip us off. They are a bunch of Pirates and thieves with no Morals.. Never trust a Nigerian.. Report It

Reply:SCAM!
Reply:Yep - it is - big time
Reply:lol, of course its a scam !
Reply:The message is a phishing scam. HSBC will not send you an email for an illegal lottery; rather, it provides banking and financial services. Have that sickening, fraudulent message slapped with the spam mark and deleted on the spot. Never fall for this by responding to the phishers and giving them your personal information.
Reply:scam.scam
Reply:if you dont have to give out your bank info. and you only have to sign the check it may not be a scam. but if they want too much info. just tell them to donate it to a church in your name, thatll get them i also heard on the news that they have a money ring out of africa taking americans to the cleaners so be carful.
Reply:It's a scam. Don't fall into their trap. I get them all the time. I just mark them as Spam mail.
Reply:Definitely a scam, I got one throught the mail, the check looked legit and everything, but it said I won throught the Switzerland lottery. I was skeptical off top. Especially when the person they told you to contact was never there. They send you a check for a certain amount and say its for "fees" But basically if you take it to your bank you will be stuck with even more fees. They had a special about it on our local news..a lot of elderly people fell for this scam.
Reply:Scam scam scam scam... If you didnt buy a ticket then you didnt win.. Do not give them any personal info , do not give them any money.. Delete it straight away.. These are going around all the time. Ignore ignore ignore
Reply:I received a joke like that months ago, First Iask myself who knows my adress. Ther rist thig I do was to verify the peron who sends me this e-mail. I starts that inputting the name on internet and the response come back: a joke. So be aware





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Reply:dude its all a scam they allways want ur social security numba


neva! eva! give it to them!! NEVER!!
Reply:Of course it is a scam; how naive do you need to be not to think so?
Reply:I received e-mails like that all the time. It's too good to be true! Normally, they'll try to get you to pay a "tax" or other fee before you can accept your "prize." If they dupe you into doing that, they'll be long gone before you can contact them again.

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