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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: Meche Twitty <mich_twitty@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:15:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION
The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
National U.K Lottorey wishes to inform you the results
of the E-mail address ballot lottery international
program by Great Britain held on 28TH MAY, 2006. Your
email account have been picked as a winner of SIX
HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY.
This results is now released to you on 8TH JUNE, 2006
and your email address attached in the A Category
lucky ball ,,,,,, and bonus ball , to check your
results online click on this link
<http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do>participants
were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from Microsoft users from company and
individual email addresses users.
Be advise to keep your winning information
confidential until your claims 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 program.
All winning must be claimed not later than 18TH JUNE
2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be
retured to European Union Treasury as unclaimed.
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:
1. Full name and address.
2. Country.
3. Tel and fax number.
4.Occupation.
Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being
part of email account users program.
Note :all reply should be directed to the decks of the
claims agent, :lotto_080@yahoo.com>
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Bill John
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 © 2006 British Lottery International
MR. BILL JOHN
(VICE PRESIDENT)
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