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Not all lottery scams arrive in your email, some arrive in your regular mailbox by the curb! But just because you receive it in a letter from the mailman doesn't make it any more legitimate.
Click here to see a PDF of an actual Loteria Primitive scam received by a potential victim in their mailbox.
Don't be fooled: NO legitimate lottery that will notify you; not by mail, email or phone!
If you still think this might be legit, look for the other, additional signs of a scam; such as keep confidential, selected by a random computer lottery of email addresses, no website of their own, use of free hotmail/yahoo email accounts, numerous misspellings, poor grammar and punctuation, etc.
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Click here for the huge list of the names of the currently identified lottery scams companies
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