So my husband says he won $ 2,000,000,000 euros and he has to pay a foreign lawyer Belgium 1,300 bucks before he can collect his winning.. I know it is most likley a scam but he wont listen to me he is convinced that he is a winner and wants and will pay the fee of $ 1,300... He never entered it, we live in the usa and he seems to think that the laywer is real and says he did his reseach with INTEL, he works with the military he is active duty and he wont listen to me.. This it what I found online proving 96 pervent that it is fake:
- You cannot win a lottery if you didn't buy a ticket
- You cannot win a lottery you have not entered
- There is no such things as an "international lottery"
- Most countries do not allow their citizens to participate in lotteries of other countries.
- Most lotteries prohibit non-residents from playing
- There is no such things as an "email lottery"
- A lottery or sweepstakes that asks you for money in order to receive your prize would be breaking the law
- "El Gordo" is drawn only ONCE a year. You have to buy a ticket in Spain in order to participate
- No legitimate lottery would ask for advance fees before "releasing" the winning prize.
- Lotteries do not contact the winners. The winner that has to contact the lottery.
http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3084
http://www.svbizlaw.com/lottery.belgiumnational.htm
I ahve tried all week to tell him that we need our tax money for bills, the car might get repoed, the cable is getting turned off, the phone is too and we owe money on credit cards furniture payments and stuff and we have no help and a baby on the way, I dont have a job right now living off of stock money little by little until I find a job I have been without a job for 3 years now.. And that money goes towards bills and personals... I am worried if he sends his money and then he doesnt recive anything in 48 hours as said we will lose $ 1,300 for ever and still be struggling..... . I dont know what to tell him, he is a fool and I am so scared and stressed, he says that people at intel said it is real, and from what I was it isn't..I dont know what his problem is he sits on the internet 5 to 9 hrs after work on his lunch break and it is rediclous, he has an addiction with PCH and sweepstakes and it is pissing me off, everyone tells him that he needs to lay off it b/c thats all he ever talks about I love him but come on now this is the most stupidist thing ever, and he will be throwning away money... I told him wendsday on his day off we are going to a International Laywer here in the US to show him it is a scam... Please help... Before he goes and spends that money!
Answer by Golden
your husband is a fool, and sounds like he's gone off the deep end. this is what is called a 419 advance fee scam. this may be a good time for you and the kids to go visit your mom. make sure you empty out any bank accounts he can get to. this guy is going down fast, don't let him drag you down with him.
Answer by joeroafan
file for legal separation and tell him to consult a lawyer or you will divorce him
Answer by Kittysue
It is 100% a SCAM
You need to get power of attorney over your husband's finances ASAP as he is obviously not of sound mind if he actually believes this
The ONLY legal lottery in Belgium is
a - ONLY open to legal residents of Belgium
b - you must have BOUGHT a ticket from an authorised lottery ticket seller in Belgium in the past 7 days
c - you must PICK the winning numbers when you BUY the ticket
d - If your numbers come up you have to either bring the ticket back to the shop where you bought it or call the number on the back of your ticket. The lottery commission will send a representatitive to your HOME to verify the ticket is valid
You NEVER pay when you win the lottery. All fees and taxes are taken out BEFORE you get the money
Besides, it's not even called the Belgian National Lottery. The name if Loterie Nationale
Here is the website and the winning numbers
http://www.loterie-nationale.be/FR/PlayAndWin/DrawGames/Lotto/default.aspx
Answer by Mamour
Well since it looks like he is no longer sane ? Take the money out of the Bank ! Pay your bills with that money and he will not have any money to send. Problem solved and take him to a Psychiatric.
Answer by Uncle
As a US citizen he is not allowed to take part in a foreign lottery
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotterysamples5.php
Answer by 2wicky
While there is such an organization in Belgium called the Nationale Loterij/Loterie Nationale, it would never ever be referred to as the Belgium National Lottery.
Secondly, the jackpot figure is way too high. It's usually in the hundred of thousands, sometimes in the millions, but never in the billions. And especially not for any lottery they organize online. The prize money for their online games are kept quite low as not to encourage gambling addiction.
Thirdly, you have to have contributed in some way to the jackpot in order to have a chance of winning it. Your chances of winning the lottery without paying anything for it is nil. They can and will not pay you a cent unless you can prove you purchased the winning lottery ticket.
Plus, anyone organizing a lottery in Belgium is bound to strict laws, especially anything involving an element of chance.
And fourthly, if you did win something and you can prove it, the National Lottery will write you a check for the appropriate amount that can be cashed at any bank. There is no need for a lawyer to get involved.
And lastly, the simple act of picking out a random email address without the owners prior consent is very likely breaking some EU privacy laws. Unless your husband at one point or another explicitly gave his email address to the organizers of this lottery, they can't use it and shouldn't have mailed it in the first place.
Answer by Emily Johnson
This is most definately a scam. Unfortunately scammers do use the name of legitimate companies to try and get money out of people. Here at Publishers Clearing House, we receive calls and e-mails every day from people who have received scam notifications just like yours. All of your research is correct. If you are asked to pay any money to claim a prize, it is a scam.
Regards,
Emily
Publishers Clearing House
Answer by Buffy Staffordshire
100% scam.
There is no lottery.
There is no Yahoo, Coca-Cola, MSN, Microsoft, BMW or any other company in the entire world that sponsors a lottery that notifies winners via email, phone call or text.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lottery official" and will demand you pay for made-up fees and taxes, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
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