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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!

Fraud email example:

From: Drake Norman <powerballgame2007@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:29:04 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Claims Form




POWERBALL LOTTO.
POWERBALL-WHEEL E-GAME 2007

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM


CONGRATULATION !!!.



Dear Winner,



Their are a lot of email alert this days notifying you that you have won a lottery but we the Power Ball Lottery Board wish to enlighten you on some basic of the Lottery Board,Any winning email notification without a website to actually check the winning ticket number of the winning if they actually exits such email notifications are scam, any of such email received without a copy right date should be sent to this office for proper strutting and also it is the duty of the Lottery Board to have the winning funds of winners sent to them in which ever method the deem fit. Note: Any Lottery winning notification that carry out proceedings out side this guidelines should be reported to us.



Warning: On no condition must you pay any fee to the Power Ball Lottery.



This is the processing and funds clearance unit of Power Ball Lottery. From this Moment on we hope your declaration as a winner to the Powerball Lottery is no more a surprise as you were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from an on-line web wide correlation of e-mail address names all over the world. The program was sponsored by some group of electronic dealers and other NGO to enhance unity and also encourage all micro-soft users all over the world,and basically you must have confirm your winning draw numbers from our website www.powerball.com . The aim of this lottery in the first place is to alleviate poverty worldwide. You are not to give any other person your lottery winning information except member of the lottery board to avoid impersonation this is a security measure.



Once again the whole of Power Ball National Lottery Staffs congratulates you. We would like you to know that, this Lottery Game is for real and immediately you send back this form, we shall file claims for your winnings and also be directed to the payment office. Be rest assured that any information given us by you will not be given to another person or used for any commercial purpose as we are quite aware of identity theft.

1. FULL NAME:..........................
2. PRESENT ADDRESS:....................
3. SEX:................................
4. AGE:................................
5. MARITAL STATUS:.....................
6. OCCUPATION:.........................
7. WINNING E-MAIL:.....................
8. TELEPHONE NUMBER:...................
9. WINNING TICKET NUMBER:...................
10. AMOUNT WON:........................
11. COUNTRY OF CITIZEN:................
12. COMPANY OWNER/INDIVIDUAL:..........

DECLARATION FORM

I, ________, hereby declare that, I have never received any settlement from the National Lottery Program nor any member of my family filed claim on my behalf to the Free Lottery International Promotion. I therefore authorize Date: _______.

Information contained in this e-mail is intended for the solemn use of the recipient only and is confidential and may be subjected of legal Professional Privilege. Any dissemination, distribution copying or use of this communication without prior permission of the recipient is strictly prohibited.


Upon receipt of the duly requested data, Our Processing unit will send you the contact information of the Funds Release/Payout Department to enable you proceed with your claim your winning prize money.



Warm Regards,
Mr. Drake Norman.
POWER BALL CLAIMS PROCESSING UNIT.

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Lottery Online coordinator :E-Mail: info@webpowerballlottery.com

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