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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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From: "Uk National Lottery" <uknationallotto_online@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:17:37 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION:CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT!!!
U.K NATIONAL LOTTOSupport Centre Bevan House 51 Bevan Avenue Conwy LL28 5AF UK WINNING NOTIFICATION: We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 8th of July 2005,of winners of the U.K National Lottery held on 6th ofJuly,2005.in Croydon London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serialnumber 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 03-12-17-36-44-49-20, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £725,000 british pounds in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This is from a total cash prize of 15,064,894(GBP) shared amongst the first ten (10) lucky winners in this category. CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund(£725,000 british pounds) is now deposited with a Security company insured in your email adress,ticket,serial and reference numbers as indicated in this mail and would be released to you by our preferred payment center in London.Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Website through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies/individuals from Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, America,Asia, Europe,Africa and North America.This promotion takes place annually. 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 by some unscrupulous elements. PLEASE BE WARNED!!! To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the below details for processing of your claims. AGENT: Mr.Bill Morgan. uknl-claims-office@uk2.net He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and remittance of your prize money. Remember, you must contact him using his mailing address not later than one week after this date or funds will be returned as unclaimed. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference number in every one of your correspondences. Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program. Sincerely, Sir. Brian Lloyd, Co-ordinator, Winning Department, U.K NATIONAL LOTTO www.national-lottery.com N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the Winners will result to disqualification.
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