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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.
  • claim_david@excite.com

Fraud email example:

From: De Lotto 2005Lottery <info_2005lottery@delotto.com>
Reply-To: claim_david@excite.com
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:19:33 -0700
Subject: Joanflyer, YOU HAVE WON!!!


DE LOTTO

INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT.


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




RE: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION

Dear Joanflyer,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the 2005 Lottery Winners

International programs held on 1st 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).This is not a joke or scam!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This lottery is a promotional program by DE LOTTO, (Biggest lottery Organization

in the United Kingdom) 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 United

Kingdom 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 two weeks from the date of

notification. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next

stake.

To file for your claim, please contact your processing agent

Mr.David Calvin.
Email: claim_david@excite.com
Tel. : 447031941015

NOTE: All winnings must be notarized and a certificate of award must be obtained

from the United Kingdom Gaming Control Board to complete the claims process, this

certificate can only be obtained through legal representation so winners will be

referred to a lawyer 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, please do forward your

Tel/Fax number to your processing agent. So you are to act fast in the claiming

of your funds, for 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 and batch numbers in all correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform your agent as soon

as possible.
Finally, we call on you to make sure that you note every letter clearly as stated

for we will not be held responsible should there be any complications in your

claim 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
Johanna Pieterman
Lotto Coordinator

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