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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: "uklottery national" <uklottery29@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:16:16 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION
The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE6 1HX
England
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw (#974) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday 23rd of April,
2005. It is yet to be unclaimed and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION
as regards this.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 3, 18, 25,29, 31, 43(bonus ball 23),
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 6 plus
bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £684,008 (Six
hundred and Eighty-four thousand and Eight pounds sterling) in cash credited
to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize shared amongst the(7)lucky winners in this
category i.e Match 6 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.This is
part of the Country's Programme to fund for the Olympic Games in 2012
The £1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4719851.stm)
The Olympic fund-raising games will include a TV draw The National Lottery
may have seemed a relatively simple way of helping pay for the Olympics.
The Lottery must raise £1.5bn over the next seven years to pay its share of
the public money going into the Olympics.
A further £650m will be raised from council tax in London and another £250m
from the London Development Agency, while similar sums will be raised from
ticket sales, marketing, sponsorship and the sale of television rights.
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 £684,008 (Six hundred and Eighty-four thousand and Eight pounds
sterling) will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact her.For security reasons, you
are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim 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:
Name: Pedro Santarino
Official Email: pedro1999@myway.com
Endeavour to email him your full names,winning numbers,email
address,telephone and fax numbers immediately.
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/player/p/results/prizes/prizeAction.do
Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Darryn Clarke(Mrs)
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
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