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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!
• 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.
  • rev_marlaw@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR RELIGOUS TOLERANCE AND ANTI TERORRISM"
<glomreto@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rev_marlaw@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:17:50 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION OUR LUCKY WINNER!!!!

                       GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR RELIGIOUS
                       TOLERANCE AND ANTI TERRORISM
                       HEAD QUATERS :35 POULTRY RD LONDON
                       EC2P
                       FSA UNITED KINGDOM
                      

 

REF - NUMBER: GLOMRETO/653/029/05
BATCH NUMBER: AT-040-SB06-04

 

Attn:PLEASE,

We are pleased to inform you, that as a result of our recent lottery draws held on the 30TH of August 2005,aimed at fostering religous tolerance among diffrent religous sects of the world and in condemnation of terrorism,Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 27522465896-532 with serial number 652-662 drew lucky numbers 7-14-18-23-31-45 which consequently won in the 2nd category. Consequent  upon  this,you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of $1,750,000  ( One million seven hundred and fifty, thousand US dollars)as your winning price.Note that All participants in this lottery programme have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engines and web sites. This promotional programme takes place every year and is promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities and organizations such as:

 

                        FROM THE  MOSLEM  COMMUNITY
{1}The government of  saudi  arabia

{2}The sultan of brunei

 

                            FROM THE CORPORATE WORLD,
{1}Bill  Gate of the micro soft inc
{2}Ted  Turnner of cnn

 

                           FROM THE CHRISTIAN WORLD
{1}Evangelist  Benny Hinn
{2}Evangelist Rienhard Bonnkie
{3}The vatican city council for inter religious affairs ,and many more    peace loving individuals and corporate bodies from around the world

  This is to encourage the preaching of the philosophy of harmonous living among people of diffrent religous inclinations  in their localities by our winners.However the two principal conditions For the reciept of this lottery fund are as follows

{1}The winner must not be less than eitheen years of age
{2}In the filling of the form for your fund processing,the name and address of one christhian or moslem group, or any charity organization in your locality to which 15% of this fund will be donated by you as part of your believe in what this group stands for shall be supplied by you.

 

 For   security purpose and clarity, we advise that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. We look forward to your active participation in our next year USD50 million slot.You are requested to contact our global cordinator in the name of REV MARTIN LAWSON  direct e-mail:(rev_marlaw@yahoo.com},to process your winnings and subsequent payments.All winnings must be claimed not later than one month After the date of this notice. Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.
 
Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Sincerely yours,

 

MR.PETER GREEN[SECRETARY OF THE MOVEMENT]

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