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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.
• 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.
  • henry_hale01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mrs sherrell barber" <s_herr_ellbarber0909@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:33:41 +0000
Subject: Electronic !!! Mail !!! Award !!! Winning !!! Notification

**********************************************************
BRITISH HERITAGE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
HEADQUARTERS UNITED KINGDOM.
P.O Box 1103
Asbury Street, Creek Road,
Deptford, London SE8.
Tel:+44(0)702 305 3577
Fax:+44 (0)703 040 3567
**********************************************************
GAMBLING BOARD OF GREAT BRITAIN
LICENSED. ONLINE BALLOT LOTTERY
(Registration 70339411).
REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT.
**********************************************************
REF NO: HLP/200-26937564-75600545-188
BATCH: 2005MJL-01
(No Ticket Sold)
**********************************************************
ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION. AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER:UNITED
KINGDOM

Lucky winner,

We happily announce to you the draw of the HERITAGE MEGA JACKPOT LOTTERY
WINNINGS PROGRAMS held on the 5th of JUNE 2006 in London. Your e-mail
address attached to Reference number:HLP/200-26937564-75600545-188 with
Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which
subsequently won you the lottery prize in the 2nd category. You have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GBP£5,500,000.00 POUNDS
(Five million five hundred thousand great britain pounds) in cash credited
to file C/9080118308/06.

This is from a total cash prize of £ 27,500,000.00 POUNDS,shared among the
five (5) international winners in this category of this years Lottery
Program Jackpot as the 2nd largest ever for the European Lottery.

The estimated £75 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in the European
history. The biggest was the £363 million jackpot that went to two winners
in a May 2000 drawing of The big game, mega millions predecessor.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in UK as indicated in our play coupon.
In view of this, your GBP£5,500,000.00 POUNDS (Five million five hundred
thousand great britain pounds) would be released to you by our affiliate
agent payment center in London.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of
your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him. All participants
were selected randomly(Electronically Generated) from the 'World Wide Web'
site through a computer ballot system and extracted from over 100,000
company addresses. This promotion takes place annually.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning informations
confidential till your claim is processed and your money transferred to a
designated bank account of your choice. This is a part of our precautionary
measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by
some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.

ELIGIBILITY:

This promotion is offered electronically via the Internet and is open to all
persons from age 18 years and above with a valid email address. Principals
and employees of the Heritage Lottery International and its respective
Parents, subsidiaries and their immediate families are not
eligible to partake in his promotion.

CLAIMS PROCEDURES:

It is our standard practice to allocate agents for the processing of claims
application. It is even more imperative for oversea winners. To begin your
claims therefore, you are advised as a matter of urgency,You are to contact
the underlisted officer by email for processing and remittance of your prize
money to you.Your assigned claims officer contact informational is:

Name: Mr.henry hale
Email:henry_hale01@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:+44(0)702 305 3577

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 25th
Steptember,2006. All funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be
penalized accordingly.Do email the above email addresses from now on,you are
to contact your assigned claims officer.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality,and press
anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be
further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the
end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,

Mrs.Sherrell Barber.

NOTE: It has come to our attention that fraudulent emails are being sent out
from the united kingdom by some group of people. These emails are NOT from
Heritage Lottery international Email-games .These emails may claim that the
recipient has won a prize in Heritage Lottery International Email-games, the
Heritage Lottery International Email-games or some other non-existent
international version of Heritage Lottery International Email-games.

These emails may include our name, our logo and links to a copy of an old
Heritage Lottery International Email-games web page as we are working
seriously to ensure security on our web page.In accordance with the Heritage
Lottery International Email-games policy and regulations,this notification
is dispatched directly to only the 5 lucky consolation prize Winners.

This notification also contains information that is proprietary,privileged
or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not
the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky numbers along
with the winning information’s you are not authoriny part of it.

rivileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If
you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky
numbers along with the winning information’s you are not authoriny part of
it.

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