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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • freelotteryintl.claims_19@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "KATE ALBERT" <kate_albert_61@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: freelotteryintl.claims_19@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:53:13 +0100
Subject: Award Prize



DEAR WINNER,

WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION

We are officially informing you of the result of the Lottery Winners
International programs held

on the 25th of January 2007 as part of our promotional programs for the year
2007. Your e-mail

address attached to ticket number 77007742781005-18721 with reference number
414-3721060drew

winning number 7-00-71-00-66-49 and credited to batch number 121cfc,which
consequently won in the

3rd category via our electronic ticket as stated above.
You have therefore been approved for a pay out of 1,800,000.00 (One Million
Eight Hundred
Thousand Pounds).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

All participants were selected through a random computer ballot system drawn
from over 800,000

company and 1,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the
world.

Your prize money, kept in trust with a reputable financial institution; will
be released to you

after proper clearance and certification of your claim. Due to mix up of
some numbers, emails and

names, we ask that you keep your winning information very confidential till
your claim has been

processed and your prize money remitted to you. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid

double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.

All participants were selected randomly from the World Wide Web from over
300,000,000 extracted

personal and company email address; and winners gotten through an automated
computer ballot

system. This promotion takes place quarterly. We hope with part of your
winning you will take

part in our weekly lottery and other programmes, with proceeds going to AIDS
and medical

research, charities and relief efforts around the world.

This lottery is promoted and sponsored by software corporations and other
private organizations

to help individuals generate fortunes which would encourage them to expand
their business

frontiers there by creating more opportunities and assisting with
humanitarian concernswithin

their immediate environment.

To file for, process and remit your claim, please contact our fiducial
agent:
MR Graham Williams
freelotteryintl.claims_19@yahoo.co.uk
TEL:+441216187168
FAX:+448709121932

Note that all winnings must be claimed not later than the 27th of April,
2007. After this date

all unclaimed, funds will be included in the next stake. Please note also,
in order to avoid

unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote your reference number
and batch numbers in

all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do
inform our agent as

soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank
you for being part

of our promotional program.

NOTE: ANYBODY UNDER THE AGE OF 16 YEARS IS AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED.

Best wishes,

MRS.KATE ALBERT
FREE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION,COORDINATOR,

*WARNING:
YOU ARE ADVICED TO KEEP ALL LOTTERY INFORMATION FROM ANY THIRD PARTY AS WE
WILL NOT ENTERTAIN

CASES OF MULTIPLE CLAIMS PROCESSING OR COMPROMISE THE PRIVACY AND SECURITY
OF YOU THE WINNER.

THIS IS IN LINE WITH THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF THE FREE LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION.

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