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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.
  • claim7ven@yahoo.com
  • people7ven@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: people7ven@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:44:44 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATION

PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL LOTTO,
AD:75 NELSON AVENUE SANDTON CITY, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

CONGRATULATIONS!....

FROM: PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: ZAR/900111/2004
BATCH: 08/11810/ZIE

ATTENTION: DEAR WINNER,

RE/ AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE

We wish to inform you of the lottery draws held on 1ST
SEPTEMBER 2005 to declare the winners of the PEOPLELOTTO/
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS.

Your email address, attached to ticket number
900-4675-04854-197, with serial
number 412-01 drew the lucky numbers 2 9 32 65 72 19
10, and consequently won
the lottery.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay
out of ZAR15,000,000.00 in
cash credited to file REF NO: ZAR/900111/2004. This is
from total prize money
of ZAR120,000,000.00 shared among the Seventeen
International Winners in this
category. All participants were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn
from 17,000 email addresses from Australia, New
Zealand, America, Europe and
Middle East and Asia as part our International
Promotions Program, which is
conducted monthly.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now available for claim. Due to the mix
up of some numbers and
email address, we ask that you keep this award
strictly from public notice
until your claim has been processed and your money
remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or unscrupulous
acts by participants of this promotion.

We hope with a part of you prize, you will participate
in our end of year high
stakes ZAR100,000,000 Million International Lottery.

To begin your claim, please contact our claim manager;

CLAIMS MANAGER,
MR. FIDEL SANKZUMA
PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL LOTTO,
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA
EMAIL: claim7ven@yahoo.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money
to a designated account of
your choice. Remember, all prize money must be claimed
not later than Two Weeks
after notice. After this date, all funds will be
returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please remember to
quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of
your correspondences
with our manager. Furthermore, should there be any
change of your address, do
inform your claims manager as soon as possible.

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you
for being part of our
promotions program.

Sincerely,

MARY DE KRUGER
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
EMAIL: people7ven@yahoo.com
PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL LOTTO SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY

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