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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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27731164135 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • claimagent0202@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: lotterypromo_ch@yahoo.ca
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:32:49 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATION'S..... YOU HAVE WON

CHARITIES LOTTERY PROMOTIONS
Headquarter, Regional Center Charities Lottery,
Furness Gate, Furness Business Park,
East Gate, South Africa.

REF NO: CLP/ 24-FB-426253
BATCH: 42/450002/CLP


PRIZE AND AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement the end of the year
winners of the computer ballot MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNINGS PROGRAMS
held on December, 2006. Your company or your personal e-mail address,
is
attached to Ticket Number 644-701-836-872, with serial number 64483-72
drew the lucky Winning Numbers 06-14-17-28-30-41, and consequently won
the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
$1,000,000.00 dollars in cash credited to file REF NO: CLP/
24-FB-426253. This is from total prize money of $3,000,000.00 dollars
shared among the Three winners (3) international winners in this
category.

To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims
department by email or phone for processing and remittance of your
prize money to you.Your claims officer contact details bellow:

File Processing Officer
Mr. TERRY GAMBO,
CHARITIES LOTTERY PROMOTIONS
South Africa
Email: claimagent0202@yahoo.ca
Tel: +27 7311 64135.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all
correspondences
with this office. Furthermore, should there be any change of your
address, do inform us as soon as possible.

For the quick processing of your claims, you are required to forward
the following details via email to the File Processing Officer Mr.
Terry Gambo, CHARITIES LOTTERY PROMOTIONS to help facilitate the
processing of your certificate which will employ the release of your
winnings.

[FULL NAME OF WINNER]..................................................

[NATIONALITY]...............................................................
...

REF NO
]............................................................................

BATCH
NO]......................................................................

[PRESENT
LOCATION]......................................................

[DATE OF
BIRTH]................../.................../.....................

[SEX].............................................................................

[OCCUPATION]................................................................

[WINNING
EMAIL].............................................................

[TEL &
FAX].....................................................................

ACCOUNT HOLDER :

BENEFICIARY BANK :

ACCOUNT NUMBER :

SWIFT CODE :

BANK BRANCH :

COUNTRY :



It is expected that you would forward this information to the File
Processing Officer as soon as possible to enable him attend to your
winnings. Once he confirms your information, your payments would be
processed.
Congratulations again from all our staff for being part of our
promotions program.

Sincerely,
Vero Mark (Mrs.)
Charities Lottery Co-ordinator.




Copyright © 2006 Charities Lottery Inc

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