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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447035958228 (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.
  • smith200801@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: YAHOO LOTTERY INC <inc66001@msn.com>
Reply-To: <smith200801@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 20:33:36 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS........YOU HAVE WON YAHOO LOTTERY 2009

















CONGRATULATIONS!!!
YOU WON
�75,000.00 Great British
Poundsterling!!!

YAHOO
INTERNET LOTTERY INC
Barley House, Har-Road
Sutton, Greater
London
SM1
4te
United
Kingdom.


Dear
Sir/ma,


YAHOO
LOTTERY
WINNING NOTIFICATION!!
Yahoo Mail! gives members
random cash prizes. Today, your e-mail account is randomly selected as one of
the "12" top Lucky winners e-mail accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We
are happy to inform you that you have won a prize
money
of seven hundred and
fifty Great British Poundsterling (�7500,000.00GBP) for
the Year 2009, Yahoo lottery win promotions
which is organized by yahoo
messenger
.com


Yahoo, collects all the mail id's of
the people that are online and offline on yahoo messenger and other related Networks. Among the
millions that subscribe to yahoo
messenger and other Microsoft users of msn, hotmail, altavista, gmail
and others not mentioned here. we only select Twelve people every month as our
winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are
therefore congratulating you for being one of the people selected for this month
Promotions. All participant
(Winners) were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine
hundred thousand E-mail
addresses extracted
from all the (Continents) Canada,
Australia,
United
States, Asia, Europe,
Middle
East, Africa and Oceania as
part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually..



This Lottery was promoted
and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational Global companies
in-conjunction with the United
Nations
(UN) as part of our social responsibility to the citizens in the communities
where we have operational base and Multitude of subscribers in our International
Network. Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our EUROPEAN
representative
office
in LONDON,UNITED KINGDOM, as indicated in this notice and your prize Money amount of �750,000.00GBP will be
released to you from this regional branch office in
United
Kingdom.
We hope, with
part of your prize, you will participate in our end of the year (2010) high
stakes of �4 Million international
draw.

INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO CLAIM
YOUR PRIZE

KINDLY CONTACT
OUR CLAIMS DEPARTMENT CENTRE UNITED KINGDOM .

CONTACT PERSON: DR SMITH
MOORE
( Winner's directorate office )Contact
Emails: smith200801@hotmail.com
:smith200801@hotmail.com

Official Email:

smith200801@hotmail.com

TEL:+447-03595-8228


These are your Winning
identification numbers.

Serial
number:.........................5388/02
Draw lucky
numbers:...31-6-2613357
Ticket number:.......56475600545
188
Batch number.....................Lwh 09102
Lotto
number.........................Lwh35447
Winning
number..................Lwh09788


YOU ARE KINDLY
ADVISED TO FORWARD YOUR ABOVE STATED WINNING IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS TO THE
CLAIMS OFFICE FOR VERIFICATION, CLARIFICATION AND PROCEEDING
CLAIMS.

ALSO YOU
ARE REQUIRE TO SEND ALONG SIDE, THE FOLLOWING DETAILS
1 FULL
NAME......................................................................................................

2
NATIONALITY....................................................................................................

3
PRESENT
LOCATION........................................................................................

4
DATE OF
BIRTH.................................................................................................

5
OCCUPATION......................................................................................................

6
HOME/MOBILE PHONE
NUMBER..................................................................

7
SCAN COPY OF INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR DRIVEN LICENSE.....


Note that as
soon as you contact the claims office, the Claims Agent (Dr. Smith Moore) will
immediately commence the claims processes by given you the online Procedures and
Directives fo r the processing and transfer of your prize Money to you. The winning
certificate of payment will also be issue to
you.
.
Congratulations once
more!!
For
security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information Strictly
confidential from the public until your Fund is processed and transferred to
you. This is part of our Official security protocols to avoid double claims and
unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial
personnel's.Mohr
President


Note: that all prize money
must be claimed not later than three week of notification . All funds not
Claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as Unclaimed Prize and
donated to The Charity Organization (Motherless Babies Home) and please be aware
that our Paying Authority will Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory
Report,Verifications and validation provided by our prize processing
Manager.

Congratulations again, from the entire Management and Staffs of
YAHOO LOTERY INC to all our lucky winners of this
year.


Robert Montaomery
Chairman
of board of directors

Dr.Tom
Mohr
President


Dr.Mrs Hilary
Schneider
Award Co-ordinator


Mrs.Sue
Clark-Johnson
Financial Secretary


Smith Moor
Price Processing
Manager
smith200801@hotmail.com
The Yahoo.com
staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com

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