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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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Fraud email example:
From: linkstridelotto@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:44:11 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WINNING=20NOTIFICATION?=
UK-NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTIONS
HEADQUARTERS: 184 WESTINGFIELD DRIVE,S.W 4TH,
P.O.BOX 1010 LIVERPOOL.
Customer Service/ Foreign Claims Dept.
Ref: UK/04/20X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY/Sweepstakes International Promotions held on saturday 1st of january
2005. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 5647-5600-545-188 with
Serial number
5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:04-06-09-12-15-40-25 which subsequently
won
you the lottery in the second category.You have therefore been approved
to claim a total sum of £61,111 (Sixty-one thousand, one hundred and eleven
poundsterlings) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from
the total cash prize of£1,466,664shared among the twenty-four (24) lucky
winners in this category.
All participants for the free online lotto version were selected randomly
from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system of individual
and corporate organisations extracted from over 250,000 email addresses
worldwide.This promotion takes place on a quarterly basis.
Your lucky winning numbers falls within our Canadian booklet representative
office in the United Kingdom as indicated in your play coupon. In view of
this, your £61,111 would be released to you by any of our payment offices
in Europe.
To file for your claim, please contact the fiduciary agent on our secure
online email:
contact official:MR STEVEN WOOD.
Email: stevenwood@consultant.com
Your Winnings Certificate and all other relevant documents for payment
accredditation will be prepared after proper authentication and verification
of your
claims file.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you
in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our
precautionary measures to avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse of this
program.
Confirm the value of your winnings online at the link below:
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do
Congratulations once more and thanks for being part of our promotional
lottery program.
Sincerely yours ,
Ms jane smith.
International Coordinator
U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY/SWEEPSTAKES INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS.
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