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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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From: "uk lottery" <loto_uk_prog4@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:51:25 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS/ YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON THIS MONTH ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD
The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NLFROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTORINTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.REF Nș: EGS/2251256003/06BATCH Nș:14/0017/1PDRE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICENational U.K Lottery wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on 3rd May, 2006. Your email account have been picked as a winner of One Million, Two Hundred and Eighty Thousand and Sixty-Seven {1,280, 067 } GB. Pounds sterling only.
This results is now released to you on Saturday 27th May, 2006 and your email address attached to ticket number 206817 with serial Number 1082 in the A Category hit bonus ball 05, 08, 12, 24, 28, 31 and bonus ball 22, which won lotto draw of the above date. To check your results online click on this link http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.doNote, participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses users.Be advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme. For the release of your winning, kindly contact your claims agent in British Lottery Head Quarters Dr. Franklin Norman at dr_fn_claims_unit@yahoo.co.uk Note, you are to quote your lucky number for confirmation of your winning.All winning must be claimed not later than 30th June, 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed Prizes. Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.You are therefore advised to give the following informations to your claim's agent via email which is .............................................1. Full name and address.2. Country.3. Tel and fax number.4.Occupation.5. A PASSPORT PHOTGRAPH.Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Julie Van Hans,
Executive.(Euro Lottery Intern.)
Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).
Copyright © 2005 British Lottery InternationalMRS JULIE VAN HANS,VICE PRESIDENT
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