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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • carljames114@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • barras_comservefinancialservices@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?carl=20james?= <carljames114@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:28:07 +0530 (IST)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: carljames114@yahoo.co.in



EUROMILLIONS Headquarters,

The Marina Offices,

St Peters Yacht Basin,

Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX

England.

www.eurolottery.org.uk



Customer Service

Ref: UK/9420X2/68

Batch: 074/05/ZY369



WINNING NOTIFICATION:



We happily announce to you the draw (#98) of the EURO MILLIONS ONLINE


SWEEPSTAKES held on Friday 17th of March, 2006 in NEWCASTLE


UNITED-KINGDOM.



Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 - 75600545 - 188


with Serial number 5368 - 02 drew the winning numbers: 05- 32 - 44 -45


- 50 - [ 01 - 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 £650,100.00


(Six hundred and fifty thousand, one hundred Great British pounds) in


cash, credited to Reference number KTU/9023118308/05. This is from a


total cash prize of £2,270,639.70 million pounds, shared amongst the


first Four (4) lucky winners in this category.



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. This promotion takes place weekly.



Please note that your lucky winning numbers fall within our European


booklet representative office in Europe, in view of this, your


£650,100.00 (Six hundred and fifty thousand, one hundred Great British


pounds will be released to you by our payment office in Europe.



Our UK agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the


release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You can confirm your


winnings online when you visit our website:


http://www.eurolottery.org.uk . For security reasons, you are advised


to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is


processed and your 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 our assigned payment agent, who would


be saddled with the responsibility of collating your information.

Please contact

BARRAS CRAIG

COMSERVE FINANCIAL SERVICES

Address

342 Walworth road,

London,

SE172NA

United Kingdom

EMAIL: barras_comservefinancialservices@hotmail.com



With your claims verification form/information below:



FULL


NAMES:.................................................................


........



CONTACT


ADDRESS:............................................................



CITY:..................................................................


.......................



STATE:.................................................................


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COUNTRY:...............................................................


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NATIONALITY:...........................................................


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ZIPCODE:...............................................................


..................



SEX:......................................


AGE:............................................



MARITAL


STATUS.................................................................


.



TEL


NO:....................................................................


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EMAIL


ADDRESS:...............................................................


..



NEXT OF


KIN:...................................................................


......



OCCUPATION:............................................................


...........



ANNUAL


INCOME:................................................................


..

AMOUNT


WON:...................................................................


...



REFERENCE NO:................... WINNING NO:.......................

TICKET NO:..........................SERIAL NO:.....................…….

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

BATCH NO:..........................………………….

LOTTERY DATE:......................……………...



Congratulations once again from all members and staff of this program.


Thank you for being part of our completely free promotional lottery


programs.



Yours faithfully,

MR. Carl James

Online coordinator EURO MILLIONS

Sweepstakes International Program.





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. Sponsored by Yahoo UK and Ireland.

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- carl james

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