Hi Linda,

Those e-mails are sent out to literally millions of people at once. They are a form of spam, and everyone gets them. It is not somebody who personally knows you, it is some scammer someplace who harvests e-mail addresses off the Internet, and then sends the same message to everyone.

If you think you have it bad, you have not seen my inbox. I personally get more than one thousand e-mails like that per day. I have a fairly sophisticated spam filter, which automatically deletes most of them, so I don't have to, but I am still forced to manually delete about 100-200 per day.

It's just plain annoying at this point, and it's hard to believe there are still people out there who get sucked in to this garbage.

Believe it or not, even with all the text on the Lottery Post "Contact Us" page about how these scams are all fake, I get at least a few dozen e-mails every day from people writing to me to claim some kind of prize offered in those spam messages. Those people are just as annoying as the spammers!

-Todd

Good luck to you linda
J