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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: "Mrs Mercy Graham" <hanbyulon@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: hhyy231101@yahoo.se
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:04:31 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATION.
THE FREELOTTO COMPANY
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30, LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND
www.freelotto.com
Dear Winner,
We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the FreeLotto
draw held yesterday the 11th of August. All 10 winning addresses were randomly
selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address
emerged alongside 9 others as category 2 winners in this year's Annual FreeLotto
Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of £1,000,000.00
pounds (one million pounds) only. The following particulars are attached
to your lotto payment order:
(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK
Please contact the under listed claims officer via email (davidwhite231@yahoo.co.uk)
as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:
Dr. David White
Chief financial Director
The Freelotto Company
TEL: +44 7040 110 971
davidwhite231@yahoo.co.uk
N.B: Steps to claim your prize
1. Winners must immediately pay a non-deductible amount of £ 295.00 pounds
only as fee before claiming their prize for the processing and handling of
award. Note that your prize have been insured to the real value of £1,000
000.00 pounds hence no deduction can be done.
2. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.
3. Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address where they
want their prize paid or sent.
4. Winners must send their names, address, and telephone number and means
of identification (international passport or drivers? license) to claim officer
to process immediate payment of their prize.
Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until prize are claimed
to avert incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements.
Once again on behalf of all our staff,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely,
Mrs Mercy Graham
Promotions Manager
The FreeLotto Company
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The FreeLotto Awards is proudly sponsored by a conglomerate of international
IT companies. The freelotto Internet draw is held once in a year and is
so organized to encourage the use of the Internet and computers worldwide.
We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more
than 150 countries worldwide.
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We also encourage you to visit our website at www.freelotto.com and take
your chance to play and become part of our daily winners. Millions are won
on a daily basis on one of the world?s most famous free lotto service.
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