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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: "post masters" <award_notification01@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:12:48 +0000
Subject: Attention and congratulations!!!
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 july 2005 and was officially
announce today 1st
september 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,PAUL VAN HEINZ
Email:mr_paulheinzclaim02@myway.com
PHONE:+447031840381
:+447031930699
:+447031840364
For further clarification/verification of your claims, Please call any of
the 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,
Mrs,Jennifer Dave.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program
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