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shrikanth_s · Feb 26, 2009, 09:54 PM

Hi!

Just need to understand the ,is there anything called an "account reactivation Fee", for an Online fund Transfer>

The Back ground is a Lottery Winning over a year ago, following which I have remitted Money for taxes and Anti terrorist certificates, and now am told that some more money needs to be paid.

Am beginning to realise that I may have been scammed, but would like to take legal recourse. Is there an option.

Srikanth

ebaines · Feb 27, 2009, 12:13 PM

You've been had by one of the most common scams on the internet. There are no legitimate lotteries that ask you to pay them when you win. Were you notified that you "won" this lottery via email, by someone who didn't even know your name or address? I certainly hope you haven't given them any information such as bank account numbers, credit cards, social security numbers, etc.

Lowtax4eva · Feb 27, 2009, 01:46 PM

No, there should not be an account activation fee, who is the fee supposedly paid to, what is it for?

It really sounds like you've been scammed, let me guess, they keep asking for money for more and more fees and keep promissing to send the money you won?

I'm glad you see it's a scam now, you can report it to the police and maybe they can trace who these people are.

shrikanth_s · Feb 27, 2009, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by Lowtax4eva

No, there should not be an account activation fee, who is the fee supposedly paid to, what is it for?

It really sounds like you've been scammed, let me guess, they keep asking for money for more and more fees and keep promissing to send the money you won?

I'm glad you see it's a scam now, you can report it to the police and maybe they can trace who these people are.

The message says ,I have to pay the fee in cash to a local agent of the lottery company in India, in turn the Lottery compnay will remit the fee to ulster bank in london who will effect the transfer.

Earlier the funds according to them were kept in an transit online account,for which a "cost of transfer ", fee was demanded by Ulster bank, they claim to have effected the transfer but the transfer did not happen because the Bank of England did not approve, since it wa s to a non EU country.I do not know how much of this is true.