Blind Trust Lottery Winnings?
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This is what I'd do if I won the lottery, this way you don't have every nut-job out there and relatives crawling out of the woodwork at your door asking for everything under the sun. If you want to know how, you need to contact a lawyer and he/she will set you up.\n\nI am guessing that maybe this is the info you want, since your question was more of a statement...
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Questions:\n    1. What is your age? Are you 18? Since you're not qualified to \n        play the lottery, why did you buy the lottery ticket? If you are \n        found to be the one who bought the ticket, you'll be \n        disqualified (see rules of the game). There are specifics \n        about age in the rules re lotteries.\n    2. Considering the situation, you have relegated the claim to \n        somebody else (by all means, it should be a member of the \n        family). Your family should get a finance manager to work \n        out some financial management in order to manage your \n        money (now the family is involved). You said a million is \n        being given to you, there are technicalities on this. Even \n        giving you a million is not easy, it may be in the form of a\n        gift, atrust fund, etc.? \n   3.  If you are found to be the one who bought the ticket, you\n        might be be disqualified (see rules of the game). There are\n        specifics about age in the rules re lotteries.
940773
Lottery winnings  Info. If you really want to know if it's a scam, IT IS!  When they ask you to send money, give bank account numbers credit card info ect .Do not give this info to anyone in an email!. If its real all they need is your mailing address to send you the money, with no up front fees to pay. REMEMBER IF YOU DID NOT SEND IN AN ENTERY FORM YOU CAN NOT WIN!  http://www.fraudaid.com/ScamSpam/Lott
176534
The results of a few lottery draws :)
670730
no. its not safe. Never trust something like this. you will have better luck buying lottery tickets.
1184474
I can guarantee if you follow their instructions and give them your bank account information so that they can "deposit your winnings,' they will drain every last dime from your account. You will never see them or your money again!
61031
and you just have to pay them like 30 bucks for some kind of claiming fee right?  that's a load of crap. if u never entered that lottery to begin with, how can you win it?   also if they are asking for money, that's an obvious way to tell its a fake.
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Its a scam!\nYou cannot have an international lottery as the gambling laws differ in every country.\nThe scammers say it is "International" so as to cover every country.\nIf you want to check a email you think might be a scam go to www.scamomatic.com\nLotterys work like this:\n1)10,000 people pay 1 dollar/euro/pound/yen....etc\nThe lottery company now has 10,000\n\n2) the lottery company holds a draw and gives out 7,000 in winnings (and keeps the profit 3,000)\n\nScams work like this:\n-1)nobody pays money (there is no money to win)\n\n0)a scammer sends out 10,000 spam emails to tell people they have won a lottery they havn't entered.(they pretend they work for real lottery websites)\n\n2)The Scammer asks for your Personal details (be prepared! your inbox is going to be full of emails asking for you personally...and dont get me started on what they are gonna do with your Bank details!)\n\n3)The scammer tells you that you have to pay fees before you can accept the "winnings" (and NO,you cant pay out of the winnings! they dont exist!....silly maga)\n\n4)The scammer manages to con 3 people out of 1000 and gives all his profits to a charity for orphaned goats (he dosn't really...he keeps it ;) )\n\n5)Your inbox gets more mails than help@microsoft.com\nEverything from "You have won anotther sooperdooperlottry" to "CHAN U B A NEXT OF KIN" to "Please join our company,cash our checks,send us the money until your bank realises you are laundering money for us?)\n\nThe moral of the story is...If it sounds too good to be true... It probably is
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I've come across that in the following website:\n\nhttp://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/internet/lottery/euro0009.shtml\n\nIt is also discussed in this story:\n\nIf you get a check, along with a letter claiming you've won the European Lottery, don't head to the bank.\n\nA Pueblo woman learned that the hard way.\n\nThose crooks in Canada are at it again. They're sending out an official looking letter, telling you you've won third place in the European International Lottery.\n\nThey claim $275,000 is headed your way, once you pay taxes and fees.\n\nBut don't buy it. Kelly Sanders of Pueblo deposited the check in her bank account, only to suffer one headache after another.\n\n"If you see a check that says, pay to the order of, and you don't know the people, don't even bother opening it, it's not worth it."\n\nKelly says she was skeptical about winning the lotto; after all, she's never been to Geneva, Switzerland where the drawing reportedly was held, and she's never entered a foreign lottery.\n\nBut after calling the number listed in the letter, she was told her name had been picked from a bingo site, and she does play bingo, so she bought it.\n\nShe deposited the $1,900 check, and spent some of it, only to later learn, the check had bounced and her account was in the red.\n\nIt wouldn't be so bad, But Kelly says her wallet was stolen, so she can't even replace the money she owes her credit union.\n\n"It's caused me nothing but headaches, a lot of stress, and right before the holidays, so I’m not a happy Santa."\n\nThe scam artists usually make their money by getting folks to wire back money for taxes and fees before they find out the check is no good.\n\nBut common sense would tell you, they could withdraw those fees ahead of time and just send you a smaller check.\n\nAlso, Kelly was told to wire money to Canada, which doesn't make sense if she won the Euro Lotto.\n\nThe bottom line, follow your gut instinct, and check out such claims before responding to them. Also, it's illegal to participate in a foreign lottery if you're in the United States at the time.\n\nhttp://www.kktv.com/news/features/6/2050137.html
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Call the bank it's drawn on and find out if it is a legitimate check and whether funds are available.  If you didn't play the lottery, though, most likely you didn't win, and I'd consider it a scam until you find out for certain whether the check is legitimate and has funds backing it.
549716
Go to "Who wants to be a millionaire" or win lotto
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i dont know. \n\ni wish i knew the lottery numbers!
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Just watch your email, I am sure that you will be winning th overseas lottery (that you never entered) very soon and probably more than once (everyone else does).\n\nThat ought to solve your problems.
177869
It's not a scam in that they do give away all the prizes that they claim (high visibility in a heavily regulated industry). However, your chances of winning are so small as to be practically non-existent.
428906
ask the retailer that sold you the lotto tickets. Or you can look on line for the Florida State Lottery Commission. And look at them in the morning.
46293
Nope, the lottery is random, and doing either way of the quick pick or your favorite numbers have the same odds. Good luck winning since I never do.
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