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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!

Fraud email example:

From: Lottery Euro <eurolotterygame_2007@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:21:11 +0800 (CST)
Subject: CLAIMS/PROCESSING RELEASED FORM


Dear Winner,
We are in recipient of your mail concerning inquiry about your winning claim.
Attached here with is a Claim Released Form and processing informations
to process your Beneficiary Winning Prize Certificate and this form will be
sent through your winning Email account to prevent claims from the
following:

A. Double claims by some fraudulent Individuals.
B. To avoid the mistransfer of your entitlement as a result of diverted
information.

Your Document will be submitted to all departments in the Organization as the
Beneficiary upon the receipt of your completed forms. Further to this, your
documents will then be transferred to the Euro Million Lottery verification
department for verification purpose.

Kindly fill the attached form and return to us as attachment through our E-mail address or by fax.

Once again the management of (EURO MILLION LOTTERY) congratulate you.
We finally await instructions from the treasury unit and your Co-operation to
enable us finalizes this procedure.







CLAIM / PAYMENT DEPARTMENT Rue Belliard 55-57, 1060 BRUSSEL - THE BELGIUM Tel: 0032-487-245-873 Fax: 0032-487-848-066
www.euromillion.be

CLAIMS/PROCESSING RELEASED FORM
Your claim of lottery winning prize will be duly processed, and payment be made upon certification. Hence, carefully fill in the appropriate informations in the space provided below to facilitate our immediate Commencement of your claim/price.

Full Name of Beneficiary:..............................................................................……………………..…….…...

Address:........................................Zip code..............................…………………………...……….......……..

City/State:.................................................Country:.................................…….…………...……....

Nationality:..................................... Sex: .....................Occupation.:...............................…………........

Tel:................................................ Fax:........................................Marital Status:.….…………...…………..

Place of Birth ...............................................................Date of Birth..............................................................

Winner E-mail Address................................................................................................................................
NEXT OF KIN Name:Mr/Mrs:................................................................................................................................................
AMOUNT WON
In Figures:...............................................................................……………………………………...

Lottery Ref & winning No.:...........................................................


DATE ----------------------------
DECLARATION

I…………………………………. hereby confirm that the above information is to the best of my knowledge true. Any tempering or falsification of the above data renders this claim null and void. I am informed that my Winning is guaranteed and non-deductible.

Signature of applicant:


OFFICE USE ONLY

Verified by: --------------------------------------------- Confirmed by: ---------------------------------------------&shy;

OFFICER’S SIGNATURE.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations),Jacques Bosch (verification department),Mr.Ruud Van Bochem(Adminstrative Department), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Adline Haack (Secretary), Mr. MichaeL Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).
Copyright © 2007 Euro Million Lottery.



Best Regards,
Mr.Ruud Van Bochem.
(Adminstrative Department).







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