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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!

Fraud email example:

From: Kate Clinton <kateclint_pball@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:01:43 +0100 (BST)
Subject: CONGRTULATIONS,urgent pls. fresh









from.

Power Ball Organization.
6566 Hollywood Lane Atlanta GA 33315
USA.

File number: 880-063-12980
Batch number: 37/01/SPB550

NOTIFICATION OF WINNING

We happily announce to you the draw of the Super
Lottery programs held
on
the 29th of August 2006 in Atlanta Georgia. Your e-mail
address was
matched to
ticket number: SP4556 0978645 with Serial number
5764987 drew the
winning:
29/37/66/29/677, which subsequently won you the
lottery in the 2nd
category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of
US$1,122,000.00(One
Million One Hundred and Twenty Two Thousand United
States Dollars Only)
in
cash credited to file number SPLO/37700075341/05. This
is from a total
cash
prize of US$40,000,000.00 (Fourth Million Dollars)
shared amongst the
first
Twenty One (21) lucky winners in this category
world-wide.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our
AMERICAN/EURO/ASIAN booklet representative office in
Atlanta as
indicated in
your play coupon. In view of this, your
US$1,122,000.00 (One Million
One
Hundred and Twenty Two Thousand United States Dollars
Only) would be
released to you by our Debt Clearing Unit in New York.
Our Debt
Clearing
Unit will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of
your
winning amount as soon as you contact them. Be
informed that all
participants were selected randomly from World Wide
Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from over
17,000,000 companies and
individuals.

This promotion takes place annually. For security
reasons, you are
Advised
to keep your winning information strictly confidential
till your claims
is
processed and your winning amount is 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 by some
unscrupulous elements.
Please be informed that all winning must be claimed
before 31 days
receive
this information and to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications,
please
quote your reference/batch numbers in any
correspondences with us or
our
Debt Clearing Unit in New York.
You are advised to acknowledge the receipt of this
information in order
to
give you a guide line on how to contact our Debt
Clearing Unit in New
York.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff
of this program
that
has successfully won this competition. Thank you for
being part of our
promotional lottery Program.
Sincerely,

N.B: If this information is transmitted to your email
address, then you
Are successful winner. Any review, Retransmission,
dissemination or
other use of this Information, or taking of any action
in reliance upon
this iformation, by person or entities other than the
Intended
recipient
Is prohibited





1. FULL NAMES:_______________________________________________________

2.NATIONALITY:_______________________________________________________
3. AGE________________________________________
4. SEX:_________________________
5. MARITAL STATUS:_____________________________________
6.CONTACT ADDRESS:_____________________________________________
7.TELEPHONE NUMBER:___________________
8.OCCUPATION:_________________________________
9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:_______________________________________
10.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS:________________________________
11.WINNING NUMBER:_________________________________________
12TOTAL AMOUNT WON:_________________________________________



Endeavour to fill the above form while replying.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Kate Clinton






Online coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY Sweepstakes International Program.





































































































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