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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +447031947171 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447011147935 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • yawards042007@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Yahoo! Lottery <newsbbc0107@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:15:07 -0600
Subject: You won $250.000.00! Yahoo! Msn! Mail congratulates you!













You won $250.000.00! Yahoo! Msn! Mail congratulates
you!




THE YAHOO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
INC YAHOO LOTTERY INTL
INC Barley House Harold
Road
Sutton, Greater
London
Sm1 4te
United
Kingdom. Dear
Sir/Madam, YAHOO LOTTERY
WINNING NOTIFICATION We happily
announce to you the draw of the Yahoo Lottery Intl Inc programs held on the JUNE
30TH 2007 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers:
31-6-2613357, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You
are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($250,000) for the JUNE 30TH 2007
lottery win promotion which is organized by MSN & YAHOO LOTTERY INTL INC
.Every month. YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL I D of the people that subscribes to yahoomail, msn, hotmail, aol, altavista, and others online, among the billions
that subscribe to us only five people will be merge for winnings we only select
five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System
without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of
the lucky people that won for this month.. PAYMENT OF PRIZE
AND CLAIM you are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim,
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center.

Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 15 days
from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any
prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and retrieved
These
are your identification numbers....

Yahoo! Lottery
Results:Batch number.....................Lwh 09102 Lotto number.......................Lwh35447 Winning
number...................Lwh09788
These numbers are your winning identification numbers, that
you will send to your claims agent,send identification and details of claim
to.

Mr.
Patrick . C.
Gill
Email:yawards042007@yahoo.co.uk

Tel:+445600011543 +447031947171
Fax:+448704900678 :+44712475425 You are therefore advise to quote the following information
to the
Clams Agent to facilitate them to
process the transfer of your fund without delay.

Serial number 5388/02
Draw lucky numbers:
31-6-2613357
Ticket number: 56475600545 188

Batch
number.....................Lwh
09102 Lotto number.......................Lwh35447 Winning number...................Lwh09788

Your winning fall in our
European Payment Center! This promotion takes place every Month .Please
note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in UK as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this,
your TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($250,000) would be released to
you by any of our payment offices in EUROPE.Our agent zoned for European paying bank will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you
contact him.
NOTE: YOU ARE
STRONGLY ADVISED TO KEEP ALL YOUR WINNING CONFIDENTIAL TILL CLAIM IS MADE TO
AVOID WRONG CLAIMING.ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIAL DISQUALIFIES YOU FROM GETTING
YOUR PRIZE.
Congratulations once more!! Yours Sincerely,
Thank you
for being a Yahoo/Msn Member.


Mrs.Darryn Clarke Online coordinator Yahoo International Lottery Program. .



ATTN: ONCE AGAIN
WE THE ENTIRE STAFF OF THE YAHOO INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY WE ARE CONGRATULATING YOU
FOR YOUR WINNINGS, SO IN ORDER FOR US TO PROCESS YOUR WINNINGS, YOU ARE TO FILL
AND RETURN THE VERIFICATION AND CLEARANCE FORM BELOW TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT THROUGH THIS EMAIL OR FAX
BELOW:

OSA
CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENTContact Person: Mr. Patrick. C. Gill Email: yawards042007@yahoo.co.uk Tel:+44 70111 47935
44702 409 7893 Fax:+44870 479 3935 +44870 479
3999
.
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN.




VERIFICATION AND CLEARANCE
FORM

1. FULL
NAMES:__________________________________(BENEFICIARY
NAME)

2. RESIDENTIAL
ADDRESS:_____________________________________________

3.
SEX:_______________

4. DATE AND PLACE OF
BIRTH::_________________________________

5. MARITAL
STATUS:________________________________________


6.
OCCUPATION:________________________

7. E-MAIL
ADDRESS:_____________________________

8. TELEPHONE
NUMBER:_____________________

9. FAX
NUMBER::_____________________

A. BATCH
NUMBER:____________________SERIAL
NO:__________________

B. TICKET
NUMBER:____________________ WINNING
NO:________________

10. BRIEF DESCRIPTION
OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL___________

11. AMOUNT
WON:___________________________________

12. COUNTRY OF
RESIDENCE:________________________________

13. NEXT OF KIN NAME
AND
ADDRESS:________________________________

14:DATE
NOTIFIED __________________________________

15:PASSPORT
NO:________________________________________



PLEASE NOTE: You must have to attach a scanned copy
of your international passport, Driver's license. Is mandatory



DECLARATION:


I...............................................................HEREBY
DECLARE THAT THE ABOVE DATA ARE TRUE. IN CASE OF ANY UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCE, MY
NEXT OF KIN HAS THE RIGHT TO CLAIM MY TOTAL WINNINGS. (OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS
AGENT) SHALL ACT AS MY AGENT IN FACILITATING THE TRANSFER OF
THE TOTAL FUND TO ME.
DATE:

YOUR FULL
NAMES:

Upon receipt of the
duly requested data, Our agent
will proceed for proper verification and furnish you with the contact
information of the payment Bank in the region where your winning numbers fall
within so you can proceed with effecting the release of your claim in anyway you
deem fit.








The Yahoo.com staff
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