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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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• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "NATIONAL LOTTERY" <jenni@reedtribe.org>
Reply-To: info@adminbettsgraham.vossnet.co.uk
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:11:44 -0800
Subject: DEAR INTERNET USER

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!
BRITISH WEB LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration Z720633X)


The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE6 1HX
England
(Customer Services)

Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Ref: WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY in conjunction
with the 2012 Olympic Lottery puzzle, online Sweepstakes International program
held on 15th Nov 2006. It is yet to be unclaimed and you are getting the
final NOTIFICATION as regards this. Your e-mail address attached to the
lucky numbers: 2, 3, 17, 22, 40,42, which subsequently won you the lottery
in the JACKPOT Category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total
sum of £2,543,170 (TWO MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE THOUSAND,ONE
HUNDRED AND SEVENTY Pounds Sterlings) in cash credited to file KTU/2012118308/06
and Draw Number:1137.

This is from a total cash prize for winners in this category i.e JACKPOT
Bonus. 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.
This is part of the Country's Programme to fund for the Olympic Games in
2012 The £1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4719851.stm)


The Olympic fund-raising games will include a TV draw The National Lottery
may have seemed a relatively simple way of helping pay for the Olympics.
The Lottery must raise £1.5bn over the next seven years to pay its share
of the public money going into the Olympics. A further £650m will be raised
from council tax in London and another £250m from the London Development
Agency, while similar sums will be raised from ticket sales, marketing,
sponsorship and the sale of television rights.

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 £2,543,170 will be released to you our payment office in UK.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

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
Administration Assistant:

NAME: Betts Graham
Administration Assistant
Humber & Wolds Council
Official Email: info@adminbettsgraham.vossnet.co.uk

Endeavour to email your details text form below and summit it to: info@adminbettsgraham.vossnet.co.uk
YOUR FULL NAMES: --------
YOUR WINNING NUMBERS:-----------------
YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS:---------------
TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS:------------
YOUR AGE:------------------
YOUR COUNTRY:----------------
LANGUAGE:------------------
YOUR OCCUPATION:---------------
HAVE YOU EVER WON A LOTTERY BEFORE:----------------
HOW DO YOU FEEL TO BE A WINNER:-----------------
You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings
and also get a prize breakdown. :-
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/information.do?info=unclaimedprizes

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Carleton Jenni Doyle(Mrs)
Online coordinator
for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

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