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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:
  • "international lottery programme" (no such lottery exists)
• 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")
  • "part of our security protocols" (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 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.
  • chinalottoint@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: China Lotto <chinalotto2008@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:43:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: YOU HAVE WON ($150.000.00)CHINESE LOTTERY AWARD 2008, CONGRATULATIONS


CHINESE
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY AWARD
2008

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OP 423 LEE CHONG STREET
GUANDONG GUANGZHOU,
CHINA

Ref: 65423171
Batch: 7056490902/188
Winning no: GB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS!!!




WINNING NOTIFICATION !

Dear Sir/Madam:

We are delighted to inform you of your beggining of the year 2008 China lottery award prize released on the 20th JANUARY, 2008 from the Chinese International Lottery programme.

This is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses. Your name was attached to ticket number 47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002.

This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

Therefore, you hereby have been approved a lump sum of US$150,000(DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$1,200000.00(DOLLARS) shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. Also Joint with the winning is a complementary Issue of the new 2006 BMW 760 4DR LIMITED EDITION.


All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from canada, Australia, United state, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotion program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communitties where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our Asian representative office in Guandong Guangzhou China, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS (US$150,000.00USD), will be released to you from this regional branch office ,Guangzhou,

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.



Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address,telephone number and other information of yours to help us locate your file and process the transfer of your winning money.

Simply contact our fiducial agent in Guangzhou China, WOO WENG at:.chinalottoint@yahoo.com

When contacting the agent, you have to send your information to him in the order stated below :


WINNER'S VERIFICATION FORM
WINNER'S PERSONAL DATA First Name.: [input] *

Middle Name.: [input]
Last Name.: [input] *



Gender.: MaleFemale



Month Of Birth.: MonthJanuaryFebuaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
Day: Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
Year: [input]


Marital Status.: SingleMarriedDivorced
Nationality.: [input] *
Religion.: [input]
Occupation.: [input]

Address 1.: [input] *
Address 2.: [input]
City.: [input] *
State/Province.: [input] *
Zip Code.: [input] *


Mobile phone No.: [input] *
House Phone No.: [input] *
Fax No.: [input]
Email Address.: [input] * eg. chinalottoint@yahoo.com


WINNING INFORMATION
Batch Number.: [input] *
Winning no.: [input] *
Refrence Number.: [input] *
This is to verify that the information filled in this FORM is a valid particulars of me. Yes: [input] No: [input]




For security reasons, we advise all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.

This is part of our security protocols to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-winners or unofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed before the january 31st 2008; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity organizations.


Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of CHINA LOTTO PROMO INC. to all our lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery programme.






CHINESE LOTTERY AWARD OF US$150,000.00 DOLLARS











PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT.
:
( chinalottoint@yahoo.com).




Yours faithfully,
Mrs. MEME ZHOU
On line co-ordinator for
CHINESE LOTTO PROGRAMME,
Sweepstakes International program.



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