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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: "uk-national lottery" <coordinatoroffice@national-uk-lottrey.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 07:45:06 +0000
Subject: WINNER PLEASE PROCESS YOUR WINNING.
The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#1001) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes
International program held on wednesday 27th junly 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the
lucky numbers: 10-12-13-17-31-37(bonus ball no.44), which subsequently won
you the lottery in the
2nd category i.e match 6.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,440,772(One
million,four hundred and
fourty thousand,seven hundred and seventy two pounds sterlings) in cash
credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of £2,881,544 shared
amongst the first two
(2)jackpot lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6.
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 which are America,Africa, Asia, Australia,Europe,
Middle East, and Oceania
.This promotion takes place weekly.Please note that your lucky winning
number falls within our
europe booklet representative office in europe as indicated in your play
coupon.
In view of this,You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of You
have therefore been
approved to claim a total sum of£1,440,772(One million,four hundred and
fourty thousand,
seven hundred and seventy two pounds sterlings)would be released to you by
any of our payment
offices in europe.
Our europe agents will immediately commence the process to facilitate 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:
MR MICHEAL LEXINGTON
Email:mr_lexingtonclaim1@excite.com
PHONE:+447031844625
For further clarification/verification of your claims, Please call on phone
number of our
fiduciary agent stated in this notification e-mail.You can go to our online
result site to
confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize
breakdown:-www.national-lottery.co.uk
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/prizes/prizeAction.do
Goodluck and congratulation from all members of staff of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Queensley smith.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program
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