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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.
  • bad_dog_96@hotmail.com
  • brenobyrne@yahoo.co.uk
  • dhdeans@yahoo.com
  • graham10@mac.com
  • hlgilchrist@hotmail.com
  • richard_gayle@excite.com

Fraud email example:

From: "stephane beljke" <postcodelott@hotmail.com>
Date: 4 Nov 2006 05:44:09 -0800
Subject:

To: 20joshua@spark-online.com, abrams@jabrams.com, alexander@arcticphoto.co.uk, alz@perigee.net, alzwnc@bellsouth.net, angsuman@taragana.com, bad_dog_96@hotmail.com, baker@bryantravel.com, bkohm@fenwick.com, brenobyrne@yahoo.co.uk, brian@brianstorms.com, ccn@headfreeze.net, christian@mutualminded.com, cluster@petef.com, contact.gb@lonza.com, cwrite@aol.com, danny666@virgilio.net, dhdeans@yahoo.com, diego@dynamicobjects.com, elin@unitboy.com, erik@efios.com, gary.franklin@realcontacts.com, graham10@mac.com, greg@blogdigger.com, hlgilchrist@hotmail.com, howard@metrohybrid.com, ian@commkit.com, info@visitprague.cz, iuoejcwest@aol.com, james@unfortu.net, jamie.bray@inwyk.com, jamie@fentonia.com, jay@icite.net, jean-marc.bondon@club-internet.fr, jernst@r-objects.com, jim@geoman.com, joan@bryantravel.com, julian_bond@voidstar.com, lara.gadda@polimi.it, marc.goldberg@rvc.com, marc@broadbandmechanics.com, marda.obryant@ticproperties.com, mark@tapestrynetworks.com, nick@ucd.ie, noah@listenlab.com, paulobryan@aol.com
, richard_gayle@excite.com, rob@h-mlaw.com, roten@tin.it, russ@russellbeattie.com
Bcc:
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:44:08 +0200
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Nov 2006 13:44:09.0451 (UTC) FILETIME=[4DE5EBB0:01C70017]


POSTCODE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
Customer Services Department,
Devendratstraat 287
1105AE
Rome
Italy


Ref Number: PC 2765 BN 3475
Batch Number: 246676527-PFH/2006
Ticket Number: MNL 2543 /6406
Serial Number: PCJL 76344-531-63757/06


WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the NEW YEAR draw of the POSTCODE LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL held on Sunday 20th of july, 2006 in Rome, Italy.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: MNL 2543 /6406, with Serial
number PCJL 76344-531-63757/06 drew the winning numbers: 01 - 09 - 20 - 23 -
30 - [04 - 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 €550 000, .00(Five Hundred and Fifty thousand Euros) in cash, credited to
file PLI/9023118308/06. 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 which was sponsored by yahoo and Microsoft. This email
online category is performed annually for the NEW YEAR promotions.

Note that your lucky winning numbers fall within our European booklet
representative office in Rome, in view of this, your €550 000, .00 will be
released to you by our funds release authorizing officer in Rome, Italy. The
funds release authorizing officer would immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you contact him. For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your prize 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 the funds release authorizing officer of:

THE POSTCODE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
DR. MAC. PAPILAS.
Funds Release Authorizing Officer.
Email: macpapilas@aol.com

Te| :+393282207205





You are advised to provide him with the following information:

Names:
Phone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Ref Number:
Batch Number:
Ticket Number:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days. Thereafter
unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your
reference information in all correspondence.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Stephane Beljke
(Online Lottery Coordinator.)

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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