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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • georgecole_comservefinancialservices@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "stephenlucas100" <stephenlucas100@terra.com.mx>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:08:31 -0600
Subject: Good News


EUROMILLIONS Headquarters,
The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England.
www.eurolottery.org.ukCustomer
Service
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#98) of the EURO
MILLIONS ONLINE
SWEEPSTAKES held on friday 5th of may,2006 in
NEWCASTLEUNITED-KINGDOM.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 -
75600545 - 188
with Serial number 5368 - 02 drew the winning
numbers: 05-
32 - 44 -45 - 50 - [ 01 - 07] Lucky stars.Which
subsequently won you the
lottery in the email online category.You have
therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of £650,100.00
(Six
hundred and fifty thousand,one hundred Great British
pounds) in cash, credited to Reference number
KTU/9023118308/05. This is from a total cash prize of
£2,270,639.70 million pounds, shared amongst the
first
Four (4) lucky winners in this category.
All participants for this online version were
selected
randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations and
corporate bodies that are listed online. This
promotion
takes place
weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning numbers fall
within
our European
booklet representative office in Europe, in view of
this,
your
£650,100.00 (Six hundred and fifty thousand, one
hundred
Great British
pounds will be released to you by our payment office
in
Europe.
Our UK agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
You
can confirm your winnings online when you visit our
website:
http://www.eurolottery.org.uk .
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your
winning
information
confidential till your claim is processed and your
money
remitted to
you. This is part of our precautionary measure to
avoid
double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
Please be
warned!!!
To file for your claim, contact our assigned payment
agent, who would be saddled with the responsibility
of
collating your information.
Please contact
MR GEORGE COLE
COMSERVE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Address
342 Walworth road,
London,
SE172NA
United Kingdom
EMAIL:
georgecole_comservefinancialservices@hotmail.com
With your claims verification
form/information below:
FULL
NAMES AND ADDRESS...............................
NATIONALITY:.........................
ZIPCODE:.............................
SEX.................................
AGE:.................................
MARITAL STATUS...............................
TELNO:..................................
REFERENCE NO:...................
WINNING NO:.......................
TICKET NO:..........................
SERIAL NO:.........................
BATCH NO:..........................
LOTTERY DATE:......................
Congratulations once again from all members and staff
of
this program.
Thank you for being part of our completely free
promotional lottery
programs.
Yours faithfully,
MR.Stephen Lucas.
Online coordinator EURO MILLIONS Sweepstakes
International
Program.
CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This email message, including
any
attachments,
is intended only for the use of the intended
recipient(s)
and may contain information that is privileged,
confidential and prohibited from unauthorized
disclosure
under applicable law. If you are not the
intended recipient of this message, any
dissemination,
distribution or
copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If
you
received this
message in error, please notify the sender by reply
email
and destroy all copies of the original message.
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