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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.
  • agentbruijn05@hotmail.ro

Fraud email example:

From: "Wendy Witkamp" <win-infodlt@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:41:50 +0000
Subject: Congratulation, you have won!!

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DE LOTTO

INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT.



REF Number: KNG/231-ILGI0431/05
BATCH No: SPGA/15/096/TVFS
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: 472-9768-98
LUCKY No: 8-66-97-22-65-99



RE: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION

Sir, Madam

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners
International programs held on the 22nd October, 2005. Your E-mail address
attached to Ticket number 20511465463-7644 with Serial number 472-9768-98
drew the lucky numbers 8-66-97-22-65-99, which consequently won in the
1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of
US$ 1,000,000.00 (One Million United States Dollars). This is from a
total cash prize of USD$10,000,000.00 Million shared amongst Ten
International Lucky Winners in the Category A + (Plus).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This lottery is a promotional program by DE LOTTO, (Biggest lottery
Organization in the Netherlands) to advertise to the world its existence.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from over 50,000 companies and 2,000,000 individual email addresses from
all over the world, as part of our international promotions program,
which we intend to conduct several times a year.
Be informed that your documents have to pass our authority to obtain a
clearance, which shall be attached to your document in readiness of the
subsequent onward transfer into your nominated bank account with 24
hours of completion of the authentication.
Due to the possibility of unscrupulous individuals filing a double
claim, we suggest that you keep this award strictly confidential until your
claim has been processed and notarized and your certificate of award
obtained. This is in conformity with the lottery claim regulations by our
Organization & the Netherlands Gaming Control Board.
This is part of our security protocol measures to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants/non
participants.

All winnings must be claimed not later than 11th November 2005. After
this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Anybody
under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

To file for your claim, please contact our /your processing agent
Mr. M. de Bruijne.
Email:agentbruijn05@hotmail.ro

NOTE: All winnings must be notarized and a certificate of award must be
obtained from the Netherlands Gaming Control Board to complete the
claims process, this certificate can only be obtained through legal
representation, so winners will be referred to an independent lawyer acting as
a referee to assist in this process. Winners are to cover the legal
charges for the notarization of the claims form and the acquisition of the
certificate of award not De Lotto.

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, provide the
following when replying:

Name:
Nationality:
Country of residence:
Tel number:

Delays will compel us to disperse your funds, in other words, we shall
divert your funds as stated above. Kindly remember to quote your
reference number number in all correspondence.

Finally, we call on you to make sure that you save a copy of this mail
and note every letter clearly as stated for we will not be held
responsible should there be any complications in this transaction due to
laxity on your part.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.

Yours truly,
Wendy Witkamp.
De Lotto.



NOTICE: You have received this message from De Lotto international
prize dept. at your e-mail address because you have visited on of our
sponsored sites and have voluntarily given your email address to receive
mails from their sponsors.If you wish to be taken out of this list do
not reply to this mail, reply to the agent with the words remove. If you
are not the intended recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly,
use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If
you believe you have received this message in error, please delete it
and all copies of it from your system and notify the sender immediately
by reply e-mail. Thank you.





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