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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: <theowest@terra.com.mx>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:10:58 +1000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION
The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Sir,
WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw (#948) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online
Sweepstakes International program held on
Friday MAY 6th 2005
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 05-15-23-30-34-42(bonus no.),
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd categoryi.e match 5 plus
bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £65,016 ( Sixty
Five Thousand, One Hundred and Sixteen pounds sterling) in cash credited
to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £1,820,448 shared amongst the
first tweenty four (28) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus
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 promotion takes place weekly.
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 You have therefore been approved to claim a total
sum of £65,016 ( Sixty Five Thousand, One Hundred and Sixteen pounds
sterling)
would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agents will immediately commence the process to acilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact them.
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 measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the
information
listed below:
Richard K. Lloyd Email: verfinance01@excite.com
1. FULL NAMES
2. DATE OF BIRTH
3. SEX
4. MARITAL STATUS
5 CONTACT ADDRESS
6. TELEPHONE NUMBER
7. OCCUPATION
8. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL
You can go to our online result site to confirm thevalue of your
winnings and also get a prize breakdown:-
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do
Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
MR THEO WEST
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program
___________________________________________________________________________
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