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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: "Martin Evans" <notification@national-ukonline.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:52:58 +0000
Subject: Congratulations!
THE COORDINATOR, NATIONAL LOTTERY UK.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
NATIONAL LOTTERY UNITED KINGDOM.
DEAR SIR/MADAM,
SECOND CATEGORY HIGH STAKES DRAW
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the Results
of lottery Draw of the NATIONAL LOTTERY UNITED KINGDOM.
We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under
the Second Category High Stakes Draw, Which is part of our
promotional draws.
The draws were held Sat. 03 Sept 05 and results are being
officially announced today. Participants were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names/email addresses of
individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,
Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International
Promotions Program.
You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 55-4-123, with
serial number 57-10 drew the winning numbers 14 26 34 35 36 45
(32) and consequently won in the Second Category.
You have therefor been awarded a lump sum payout of £500,000 GBP
(Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds), which is
the winning payout for Second Category Winners. This is from the
total prize money of £2,500,000 shared amongst five(5)
winners in the B Category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund has been deposited with our International Funds Transfer
agents "FINANCE SOURCE INVESTMENT LTD" and has been insured in your
name. In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names
of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your
award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring
your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double Claiming or
unscrupulous acts by Participants/non-participants of this program.
We also wish to bring to your notice, the December 2005 Lotto-Extra
Draw where you stand a chance of Winning up to £25 Million that will
be shared Amongst 10 winners worldwide, we hope that with a part of
your prize you will participate.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated bank account of your
choice;
MR JAMES ELLES
FINANCE MANAGER.
FINANCE SOURCE INVESTMENT LTD.
294 COLDHARBOUR ROAD,
BRIXON LONDON E113AA, UK
TEL: 44-704-012-5189
FAX: 44-709-286-8074
Email: jelles@financesourceinvst.com
You are advised to contact your claims agent by email and/or fax within
a week of receiept of this notice. Failure to do so may warrant
immediate disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find Below your reference
and Batch numbers. Remember to Quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: NLUK/05/3456/7564/GL256
BATCH NUMBER: NL5/BZO7-6
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
MR MARTIN EVANS.
THE COORDINATOR,
NATIONAL LOTTERY UK
13 EDGEWARE ROAD
LONDON SW25LL
UNITED KINGDOM.
TEL: 44-704-012-5186
FAX: 44-709-286-9677
N/B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your
claims agent immediately.(TERMS AND CONDITION APPLYS).
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