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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: forex signal system <simple_signalsystem.forex@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:56:13 -0800 (PST)
Subject: plz tell me if this is true
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England
Dear Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are one
of our winniers of the UNITEDKINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international
Lottery programs. held on the 9th of Febuary, 2007.The online cyber
lotto
draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses
of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated
random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After
this
automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of three
winners in the category "A" with the following winning information:
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,000,000
(One
million pounds sterling).
REF No: UK/9420X2/68
BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369
TICKET No: 56475600545188
SERIAL No: S/N-5368/02
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
Name:Mr.Alex David
TEL:+44 704 0122134
Fax:+44 707 5055420
Official Email:agentdavid2006@msn.com
Do fill out the claims form in other to process the claims of your
prize without delay.
PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM
NAME:
AGE:
SEX:
ADDRESS:
EMAIL:
PHONE:
OCCUPATION:
COMPANY:
COUNTRY:
AMOUNT WON:
Yours faithfully,
Anderson Smith(Mr.)
Online coordinator for The Uk National Lottery
Sweepstakes International Program.
plz tell me if this can be true
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