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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.
  • scottlee_lee@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Smith Morgan" <uk_lottery_department2005@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:27:50 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!! TICKET NUMBER 20511465463-7644.

INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REF Number: SCA/231-ILGI0431/05
BATCH No: EAPA/15/096/TVFS
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: 472-9768-98
LUCKY No: 8-66-97-22-65-99
RE: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION

Sir, Madam

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners
International programs
held on the 10th October 2005. Your E-mail addressattached to Ticket number
20511465463-
7644 with Serial number 472-9768-98 drew the lucky numbers 8-66-97-22-65-99,
which
consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a
lump sum
payout of US$ 1,000,000.00 (One Million United States Dollars). This is from
a total cash
prize of USD$10,000,000.00 Million shared amongst Ten International Lucky
Winners in the
Category A +(Plus).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This lottery is a promotional program by DE LOTTO,(Biggest lottery
Organization in the
Netherlands) to advertise to the world its existence. All participants were
selected
through a computer ballot system drawn from over 50,000 companies and
2,000,000 individual
email addresses from all over the world, as part of our international
promotions program,
which we intend to conduct several times a year.Be informed that your
documents have to
pass our authority to obtain a clearance, which shall be attached to your
document in
readiness of the subsequent onward transfer into your nominated bank account
with 24 hours
of completion of the authentication.

Due to the possibility of unscrupulous individuals filing a double claim, we
suggest that
you keep this award strictly confidential until your claim has been
processed and notarized
and your certificate of award obtained. This is inconformity with the
lottery claim
regulations by our Organization & the Netherlands Gaming Control Board. This
is part of our
security protocol measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program
by some participants/non participants.

All winnings must be claimed not later than 25th october 2005. After this
date all
unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Anybody under the age of
18 is
automatically disqualified.

To file for your claim, please contact our /yourprocessing agent

Mr. Scott Lee
Email:Scottlee_lee@yahoo.co.uk

NOTE: All winnings must be notarized and a certificate of award must be
obtained from the
Netherlands Gaming Control Board to complete the claims process, this
certificate can only
be obtained through legal representation so winnerswill be referred to a
lawyer to assist
in this process. Winners areto cover the legal charges for the notarization
of the claims
form and the acquisition of the certificate of award not DE LOTTO. In order
to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications, provide the following when replying:

Name:
Nationality:
Country of residence:
Tel number:

Delays will compel us to disperse your funds, in other words, we shall
divert your funds as
stated above. Kindly remember to quote yourreference number numbers in all
correspondence.
Finally, we call on you to make sure that you save acopy of this mail and
note every letter
clearly as stated for we will not be heldresponsible should there be any
complications in
this transaction due to laxity on you part.Congratulations once more from
our members of
staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours truly,
Scott Lee.
De Lotto.
NOTICE: You have received this message from De Lotto international prize
dept. at your
e-mail address because you have visited on of our sponsored sites and have
voluntarily
given your email address to receive mails from their sponsors.If you wish to
be taken out
of this list do not reply to this mail, reply to the agent with the words
remove. If you
are not the intended recipient, you must not,directly or indirectly, use,
disclose,
distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you have
received this
message in error, please delete it and all copies of it from your system and
notify the
sender immediately by reply e-mail. Thank you.

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