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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.
  • justusfrank@lexpress.net

Fraud email example:

From: "VERONICA LEE" <oba001@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:20:47 +0000
Subject: JURIST LOTTO PROMO LOTTERY

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
JURIST LOTTO PROMO LOTTERY, UNITED KINGDOM.PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT WHITE
HART LANE, LONDON N17 8HR, UNITED KINGDOM.

Dear Winner,

REF: 041238013011JLP
BATCH: 0034712-EX
AWARD NOTIFICATION/FINAL PAYMENT NOTICE.

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today,16th
January,2006,
of Winners of the JURIST PROMO LOTTERY, UNITED KINGDOM,draws held on
9th January, 2005.
Your email address attached to ticket number 023-0148-790-459, with
serial number 8973-20 drew the lucky numbers 09-44-44-67-27-11, and
consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category.
You have therefore been approved for lump sum pay Out of
(£1.500.000.00) One Million, five hundred thousand British Pounds in
cash  credited to file  REF No.041238013011JLP. This is from total
prize Money Of(£25.500.000.00)
Twenty-Five Million, five hundred thousand British Pounds shared among
the seventeen International winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computer Ballot System drawn
from 25,000 email addresses from Australia, New Zealand, America,
Europe, North America and Asia as Part of International Promotions
Program,  which is Conducted Annually.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Due to the mix up of some numbers and addresses, we ask that you keep
this Award strictly from Public notice until your claim has been
processed and released to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming by
participants of this program. We hope with a part of your prize, you
will participate in our end of year high stakes £500 Million
International  Lottery.
To begin your claim, please contact our Director,Claims/Remittance
Department:

Mr.Justus Frank
Director,Claims/Remittance Department,
JURIST LOTTO PROMO LOTTERY,
LONDON,UNITED KINGDOM.

Email: justusfrank@lexpress.net
He will process and ensure the release of your won prize Money.
Note that all prize money must be claimed not later than 10st February,
2006.
After this date, all funds shall be returned to our treasury as
unclaimed prize money.

In order to avoid unnecessary delay and complications, please remember
to quote your Reference and batch numbers in every of your
correspondence with our payment officer.
Congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,

Ms . Abigail Jesse.

The Promotions Manager, JURIST LOTTO

 

 

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