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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "british lottery commission"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • agentjochenbraun@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "nationallottery notificationdept" <christbrdfrd003@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:40:22 +0100
Subject: Ref: UK/9420X2/68(E-MAIL AWARD RESULT)

 

  

UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY

HEAD QUARTER
45 ELMDENE RD,WOOLICH SE 18 6TZ.
LONDON.UNITED KINDOM.
WINNING NOTIFICATION DEPARTMENT

(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Dear Lottery Winner :
We happily announce to you the draw (06#1114) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, onlineSweepstakes International program held on Saturday the 26th Of August, 2006 in liverpool.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 18,with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 10-17-24-31-42-49-5 [ And 5 as the Bonus Number] , which subsequently won you the second prize in the lottery sweeptake.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £62,462.00( Sixty Two Thousand Four Hundred And Sixty Two Great British Pounds Sterling),Which is equivalent to US$117,953.24( One Hundred And Seventeen Thousand Nine Hundred And Fifty Three And Twenty Four Cent United States Dollar )in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this,you are hereby collecting your winnings in pounds,which can also be converted to dollars if you choose to have it in dollars.

So your  £62,462.00( Sixty Two Thousand Four Hundred And Sixty Two Great British Pounds Sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. Our European agent, which have been assigned to help the winners in your category to claim winnings will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Please be warned. For more enquires and information on how to file for your claim, please contact

Your assigned fiduciary agent:
MR :JOCHEN .M. BRAUN.
Email: agentjochenbraun@yahoo.co.uk    
TELEPHONE :- +44- 7024- 0817- 92
                       +44- 7024- 0745- 02
Yours faithfully,
PATRICK BRADFORD.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program NATIONAL LOTTERY

BRIEF HISTORY OF THIS ORGAIZATION:-

THE UK LOTTERY IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT WAS ESTABLISH AND REGISTERED BY THE BRITISH LOTTERY COMMISSION 20YEARS AGO( 19TH OF JANUARY 1986 ). AND IT WAS ESTABLISH BY A VERY HIGHLY POTENTIAL AND RICH MAN, MR CHRISTOPHER GRANT, A HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVIST, AND ALSO A PHILANTROPIST. THE ORGANIZATION WAS ESTABLISH TO GIVE EVERYBODY THE LUCKY CHANCE OF BEING A MILLIONAIRE.

I WANT TO GIVE EVERYBODY THE PREVILEDGE OF BEING A MILLIONAIRE,SAY MR CHRISTOPHER GRANT. AND SINCE THE PAST TWENTY YEARS THE UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION HAS MADE MANY A MILLIONAIRE.

HOW IT IS BEING PLAYED/ENTERED FOR:-

FIRST WHEN THIS ORGANIZATION WAS ESTABLISH.THE LOTTERY WAS FIRST BEING PLAYED BY THE PEOPLE IN BRITAIN ONLY. IT IS ONLY WHEN YOU ARE IN BRITAIN THAT YOU ARE ALLOWED TO PLAY THIS LOTTERY.
THE REASON FOR THIS, WAS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WAY WE COULD MAKE THE TICKET REACH EVERYBODY ROUND THE WORLD. 

THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO GET A TICKET,BEFORE YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE.

THIS BECAME A BIG PROBLEM FOR THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THIS ORGANIZATION MR CHRISTOPHER GRANT. BECAUSE HIS DREAM FOR ESTABLISHING THIS ORGANIZATION WAS TO MAKE EVERYBODY ROUND THE WORLD TO PARTICIPATE AND GAIN FROM IT. ALLOWING THE BRITISH ALONE TO PARTICIPATE, WAS LIKE A CENTIMENT.THIS WAS WHEN MR CHRISTOPHER GRANT THEN CAME WITH A SOLUTION.

 

SINCE EVERYBODY CAN NOT REACH OUR TICKET TO PARTICIPATE.HE THEN BROUGHT THE IDEA OF RANDOM SELECTION OF EMAIL FROM THOUSAND OF WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET, AND ATTACH THEM TO EACH TICKET.

ANY EMAIL ADDRESS ATTACH TO THE WINNING TICKET. WILL BE DECLEARED THE WINNER. AND YOU WILL THEN GET THE WINNING NOTIFICATION MESSAGE.( "I THINK THIS WILL BE A BETTER SOLUTION TO REACH EVERYBODY, AND ALSO FOR EVERY BODY TO BENEFIT FROM THIS ORGANIZATION ROUND THE WORD" SAYS MR CHRISTOPHER GRANT ).

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