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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: "uk national lottery" <harry_uknationalottery03@msn.com>
Reply-To: rodneybrown@myway.com
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:40:46 +0000
Subject: AWARD WINNIG NOTIFICATION/FINAL NOTICE
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O Box 1010
LIVERPOOL, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Notice Centre)
TEL: 44-7040-106-598 ; FAX: 44-8701-344-753
Ref: XYL /26510460037/05
Batch: 24/00319/IPD
ATTENTION: WINNER,
RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/FINAL NOTICE
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today 5th of December, 2005
that you are one of the winners of the National Lottery INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMS held on 3rd of December, 2005.Your email, attached to ticket number
56475600545 188, with serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers
02-10-11-28-36-47 and bonus 33; the lottery was categorized into FIVE
ZONAL(Africa, America, Europe, Middle East and Asia) stages with the amount
won by individual respectively and consequently you have won the lottery in
the 1st category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£118,149 (One hundred and eighteen thousand, one hundred and forty nine
pounds sterling) in cash credited to file XYL /26510460037/05.This is from a
total cash prize of £1,772,235 (One million, seven hundred and seventy two
thousand, two hundred and thirty five pounds sterling.) shared amongst the
(15) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 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.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
You are required to keep this award to yourself until your claim has been
processed and your money remitted to you as this is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of
this program. Through computer balloting you have been zoned for your funds
to be released in our Europe office which is in United Kingdom.To begin your
claim,you are to write/contact our Payment and Release Order department
company's customer service using details below:
===========================
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY PAYMENT AND RELEASE
ORDER DEPARTMENT
MAIL TO: rodneybrown@myway.com
TEL: 44-7040-106-598 24 hrs.
FAX: 44-8701-344-753 24hrs.
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For due processing and remittance of your prize. Remember, all prize money
must be claimed not later than two weeks after the day of Notification.
After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.
Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
REV. GEORGE HARRY
CO-ORDINATOR FOR UK LOTTERY
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The National Lottery Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers, Mckintosh and a
Conglomeration of other international IT companies. The National Lottery
internet draw is held twice 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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