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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: "John Williams" <britsworldwide@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 12:03:19 +0000
Subject: Winner
From: The director of the Prize Award Department
Reference number: EG/40028012/02
Batch number : 202/1245/SDD
Date: 1st August 2005
Re: Award Notification of Final Notice
Owner of This Email Address
We are pleased to inform you of the release on the 1st August 2005, the
Result of the BRITS WORLDWIDE LOTTO, UK promotion program held on the 30th
July 2005, your email address attached to the ticket number 244-332425-470
with winning number 09-13-19-27-41-49, which consequently won the lottery in
the 3rd category. You have therefore been awarded the lump sum of
?,000,000(One Million Pounds sterling) in cash credited to file number
EG/40028012/02. This is from the total cash prize off ?0,000,000(Ten million
British pounds sterling) which is being shared among ten international lucky
winners in this category!
Your funds are deposited with a security company, which will be insured in
your name once you contact the security company. Due to a mix up of some
names and numbers, we strongly recommend that you keep this award a top
secret from the public notice until your claim have been processed and the
money remitted into your account. This is a part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming and unwanted scams of this program by other
participants.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000 email addresses from all over the world as a part of our free
International promotional program by internet leading software companies
worldwide as gratitude for being an internet user, which is done twice
annually. We hope that with part of your prize, you will take part in our
start of the year high Stake ?5,000,000 (Fifteen Million pounds Sterling)
lottery. To avoid fraud and scams, and to begin your claim, Please contact
only your assigned agent, Mr Tony Thompson; Foreign Service Manager of WHITE
STAR SECURITY NETWORK via email on Tel: 0044 7904 771 899 or
tthompson@wazzoomail.com, for processing and remittance of your money to a
designated account of your choice. All prize money must be claimed no later
than 14days from the date of this notice, as after this date, all funds will
be returned to Brits Worldwide LOTTO INTERNATIONAL as unclaimed.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference and batch number in every correspondence with us, or your agent.
Furthermore, if you have changed your email address, do contact your agent
to notifying him of the change.
Congratulations once more from me and on behalf of all members of my staff
and
Thank you for being a part of our promotions program.
Yours sincerely,
John Williams
Material Copyright ?2005 the Lottery Co. Ltd.
The Lottery Company is in no way affiliated with, associated with
or approved or endorsed by Camelot Group plc or The National Lottery
Commission.
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