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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447023059812 (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.
  • michealsheppard21@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "UK Lottery" <uk106lottery@msn.com>
Reply-To: michealsheppard21@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:38:40 +0000
Subject: !!!CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A LUCKY WINNER!!!

The National Lottery P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services) Ref: UK/9420X2/68 Batch: 074/05/ZY369

                                                    WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#1035) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on Wednesday 23rd November 2005.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a pool of over 25,000 names and e-mail addresses of distinguished professionals drawn from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions programme conducted weekly to encourage prospective overseas entries. We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.

The result of our computer draw (#988) selected your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 14-33-36-39-42-46(bonus no.13), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category (match 5 plus bonus).

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of  245.419(TWO HUNDRED AND FOURTY FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETEEN POUNDS STERLINGS) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of 981,676 shared amongst the Four(4) lucky winners in the 2nd category.

NUMBER OF MATCHES     No OF WINNERS      ?s PER WINNER          TOTAL

   Match  6                                       0                      3,190,447   ?3,190,447

 

  Match 5 plus bonus           4                         245,419            981,676
  

 Match 5                                    268                                  2,289  613,452

 

   Match 4                                      13898                             97                        1348,106

Match 3                                  262669                10         2626690

Totals                                        276893                                                              2,626,690

 

                                                 

Additional Information:

Jackpot winner(s) 0

Machine used for Draw AMETHYST

Winners by Lucky Dip 114991

Ball set used 1

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 Unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

Your prize award has been insured in your name and is ready for claims. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised to expeditiously contact our licensed and accredited claim agent for Overseas Lottery Winners within a period of 21 days (date of this email inclusive) for the processing of your winning and remittance to you after all statutory obligations have been satisfactorily dispensed with.

This promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.

In view of this, your 245.419(TWO HUNDRED AND FOURTY FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETEEN POUNDS STERLINGS)  would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated period may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Overseas Claims Unit
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
MR MICHEAL  SHEPPARD

Emails;michealsheppard21@yahoo.co.uk

phone;+447023059812

fax;+447075055660

You can go to our online result site to confirm the
value of your
winnings and also get a prize breakdown:-
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,

Brian Hunt
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,

Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days 8am-11pm.

VERIFICATION AND FUND RELEASE FORM                                                                   ATTN: ONCE AGAIN THE WHOLE OF THE NATIONAL UK LOTTERY STAFFS ARE CONGRATULATING YOU,  SO PLEASE GET BACK TO ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WITH  THE FOLLOWING INFORMATIONS TO ENABLE US FILE YOUR CLAIMS. AND WE WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU THAT YOUR CLAIMS WAS PICKED BY RANDOM SEARCH OF EMAILS AND YOU WERE FIXED AT THE DRAW WHICH YOU CAME OUT SUCESSFULLY THAT IS WHY YOU WERE NOTED SO PLEASE FILL OUT THE INFORMATION BELOW SO THAT WE  PROCEED WITH YOUR CLAIMS. 1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________ 2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ 3.SEX:_______________ 4.AGE:________ 5MARITAL STATUS:___________________ 6.OCCUPATION:________________________ 7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________ 8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________ 9.BATCH NUMBER:____________________ B. REF NUMBER:______________ 10.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL___________ 11.AMOUNT WON:___________________________________ ___________________________________________ 12. COUNTRY________________________________ Upon receipt of the duly requested data, I will send you the contact information of the payment office so you can proceed with effecting the release of your claim in anyway you deem fit. Warm Regards, MICHEAL  SHEPPARD(MR)

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