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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: Mr Shawn Patrick <mr_shawn_patrick@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 20 Sep 2006 20:06:02 -0400
Subject:
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
UK-ONLINE-LOTTERY Headquarters:
Customer Service
Ref:UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
# 13 Beach Pkw,Princess Dolly CarlinTowers
Manchester,United Kingdom.
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw of the UK-ONLINE-LOTTERYInternational programs held on the Friday,Sept.20th 2006)inMANCHESTER, UK. Your e-mail address attached to ticketnumber:
56475600545188 with Serial number: 5368/02 drew theluckynumbers:19-6-26-17-35-7, which subsequently won you thelotteryin the 2nd category.
You have therefore been approved toclaim a total sum of US$500,000(Five Hundred Thousand UnitedStatesDollars) in cash credited to file ktu/9023118308/03.
This is from atotal cash prize of US $5 Million dollars, shared amongthe first Ten(10) lucky winners in this category.All participants were selectedrandomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw
system andextracted from over 100,000 companies websites.
This promotion takesplace annually, Please note that your lucky winning category # :two(2)falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe(UK)from the five booklet reps.
(london,sydney,seoul,lagos,athlanta) asindicated in your play coupon.
In view of this, your US$500,000.00(Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to youby our payment office in europe.
Our European agent will immediatelycommence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon asyou contact her.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep yourwinning information confidential till your claims is processed and yourmoney remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim yourprize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid doubleclaiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulouselements.
Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contactour fudiciary agent in charge of
category two(2)winners:
Shawn Patrick.
Email mr_shawn_patrick@yahoo.co.uk
To avoid unnecessary delays andcomplications, please quote your full names,your country, your privateTelephone and fax number,
yourreference/batch numbers etc in anycorrespondences with us or our designated agent.
Congratulationsonce more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank you forbeing part of our promotional lottery program.
Sincerely,
DAVID E.ELLIOT.
UK Online Lottery draw Co-ordinator
Please fill out thisconfirmation form below,send it to your fudiciary agent so that shewill assist you in filling out for your claim and the submitting ofyour winning file to our Headquarters for access.
..CONFIRMATIONFORM..
PERSONAL DATA
FULL NAMES:___________
GENDER________________________
DATE OF BIRTH:__________________
NATIONALITY:___________________
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:___________
MARITAL STATUS: _____________________
HOMEADDRESS: _______________________
OFFICE ADDRESS:________________________
TEL NUMBER:____________________________
FAX NUMBER:_____________________________
OCCUPATION:____________________________
POSITION HELD:___________________________
TICKET NUMBER:___________________________
EMAIL ADDRESS:___________________________
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