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i recive from this e-mail controller@freelotto.com


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This is freelotto.com spam.

In spite of the name, Freelotto is NOT a lottery.

To quote freelotto.com:

We are the largest online lottery style sweepstakes site.

There has been numerous complaints from customers who continued to get their spam in spite of having unsubscribed.

Here is a quote from PCWORLD

But despite our repeated use of opt-out links in messages from FreeLotto, PlasmaNet, and their partners, we continued to get mail four weeks after unsubscribing.

Complete article here (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,118702-page,2/article.html)

Sweepstakes are a promotional tool and in the case of freelotto.com, in order to play you agree to receive email advertisements from them AND their clients. It can be as many as 60 a day according to PCWORLD's experience.

Scammers are frequently using the name and web site of freelotto.com in their scam messages. Those are usually straight advance fee fraud.

if you simply google the following:

freelotto scam

you will get loads of comments about freelotto and also the various scams using the name.

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Post moved to appropriate thread by the moderator

Also, as it was pointed to me by support staff member ER, if you read the "Privacy Pledge", it may explain why some people once registered and flooded with spam, continue to receive spam after having unsudscribed.:


<snip>
Each email we send you will include a description of the simple unsubscribe process to enable you to stop receiving future e-mail of that type from FreeLotto®. You may unsubscribe from each such email type this way. For example, unsubscribing from a daily FreeLotto® results email will result in you no longer receiving the daily FreeLotto® results by email. You may however continue to receive other types of email which you can unsubscribe from in the same fashion.
<snip>
If you wish to stop receiving e-mail results from PlasmaNet and FreeLotto.com, you can quickly and easily unsubscribe yourself. To do so open results e-mail, scroll down to the line that reads: "If you'd prefer not to receive the results by e-mail, please click below to unsubscribe." If you play FreeLotto subsequent to unsubscribing from all e-mails, you are giving PlasmaNet Inc. definite permission to resubscribe you to all mail types and your subscription to receiving email results and other promotions will be automatically reinstated. This is necessary because of the substantial amount of money you can win. Your prize notifications are sent via email and it is important to respond to these emails to claim any prizes won. Furthermore, it is the sponsor that makes FreeLotto prizes possible and in order to play our games you must agree to receive our sponsored messages.

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Some of those complaints mention problems with unexpected credit card charges and in order to participate in their promotional sweepstakes, you have to give your credit card number. "F.A.S.T" seems to basically be Freelotto's" pay-a-monthly-fee subscription service.

There are also many reports that the average winning prize are quite small, some in the $3 to $5 range.

So to participate in a promotional sweepstake (NOT a lottery) you agree to both receive enormous amount of advertising (up to 60 spams a day according to PCWORLD Magazine), you also agree to give them your credit card number so that they can automatically withdraw monthly fees until you unsubscribe.

My personal opinion is that if unsubscribing from their spam is very difficult as mentioned by PCWORLD, the much more serious problem of successfully unsubscribing from the monthly withdrawals would not be worth the "chance" of winning a small prize. Again, my opinion, I would prefer to take the money they would withdraw from my Credit Card and buy real lottery tickets.

Having said all that, the question was "are they legit", the short answer would be yes.