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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.
  • lordmanwalter_ukfl@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Peter williams" <peterwilliams05@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:22:50 +0000
Subject: WINNER LOTTERY

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND
www.freelotto.com
REF - NUMBER: FL/04/736207152/UK
BATCH NUMBER: AT-040-SB06-04

Attn:Winner,

We are pleased to inform you, that as a result of our recent lottery draws
held on the 30TH of Aug 2005,aimed at fostering FREE LOTTO among different
religous sects of the world and in condemnation of terrorism,Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number FL754/22/76 with serial number
FL09622UKdrew lucky numbers 37-13-43-85-67-11which consequently won in the
2nd category. Consequent upon this,you have therefore been approved for a
lump sum pay out of $1,000,000.00 ( One million US dollars)as your winning
price.Note that All participants in this lottery programme have been
selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000
companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engines
and web sites. This promotional programme takes place every year and is
promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities and organizations such as:
FROM THE MOSLEM COMMUNITY
{1}The government of saudi arabia
{2}The sultan of brunei
FROM THE CORPORATE WORLD,
{1}Bill Gate of the micro soft inc
{2}Ted Turnner of cnn
FROM THE CHRISTIAN WORLD,
{1}Evangelist Benny Hinn
{2}Evangelist Rienhard Bonnkie
{3}The vatican city council for inter religious affairs ,and many more
peace loving individuals and corporate bodies from around the world
This is to encourage the preaching of the philosophy of harmonous living
among people of different religous inclinations in their localities by our
winners.However the two principal conditions For the reciept of this lottery
fund are as follows,
{1}The winner must not be less than eitheen years of age
{2}In the filling of the form for your fund processing,the name and address
of one christhian or moslem group, or any charity organization in your
locality to which 15% of this fund will be donated by you as part of your
believe in what this group stands for shall be supplied by you.
For security purpose and clarity, we advise that you keep your winning
information confidential until your claims have been processed and your
money remitted to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. We look
forward to your active participation in our next year USD50 million slot.

To file for your claim,you are requested to contact our Global cordinator in
the name of Rev Lordman Walter on his direct e-mail:(
lordmanwalter_ukfl@yahoo.co.uk ,Tell:44-703-190-7557,to process your
winnings and subsequent payments.All winnings must be claimed not later than
one month After the date of this notice. Please note, in order to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your reference
number and batch numbers in all correspondence.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional
program.

Sincerely yours
Dr Peter Williams
Promotions Manager
The Free Lotto Company
UK & Europe
www.freelotto.com

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