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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: "KATE ALBERT" <kate_albert_61@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: freelotteryintl.claims_19@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:53:13 +0100
Subject: Award Prize
DEAR WINNER,
WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION
We are officially informing you of the result of the Lottery Winners
International programs held
on the 25th of January 2007 as part of our promotional programs for the year
2007. Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number 77007742781005-18721 with reference number
414-3721060drew
winning number 7-00-71-00-66-49 and credited to batch number 121cfc,which
consequently won in the
3rd category via our electronic ticket as stated above.
You have therefore been approved for a pay out of 1,800,000.00 (One Million
Eight Hundred
Thousand Pounds).
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
All participants were selected through a random computer ballot system drawn
from over 800,000
company and 1,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the
world.
Your prize money, kept in trust with a reputable financial institution; will
be released to you
after proper clearance and certification of your claim. Due to mix up of
some numbers, emails and
names, we ask that you keep your winning information very confidential till
your claim has been
processed and your prize money remitted to you. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
All participants were selected randomly from the World Wide Web from over
300,000,000 extracted
personal and company email address; and winners gotten through an automated
computer ballot
system. This promotion takes place quarterly. We hope with part of your
winning you will take
part in our weekly lottery and other programmes, with proceeds going to AIDS
and medical
research, charities and relief efforts around the world.
This lottery is promoted and sponsored by software corporations and other
private organizations
to help individuals generate fortunes which would encourage them to expand
their business
frontiers there by creating more opportunities and assisting with
humanitarian concernswithin
their immediate environment.
To file for, process and remit your claim, please contact our fiducial
agent:
MR Graham Williams
freelotteryintl.claims_19@yahoo.co.uk
TEL:+441216187168
FAX:+448709121932
Note that all winnings must be claimed not later than the 27th of April,
2007. After this date
all unclaimed, funds will be included in the next stake. Please note also,
in order to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote your reference number
and batch numbers in
all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do
inform our agent as
soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank
you for being part
of our promotional program.
NOTE: ANYBODY UNDER THE AGE OF 16 YEARS IS AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED.
Best wishes,
MRS.KATE ALBERT
FREE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION,COORDINATOR,
*WARNING:
YOU ARE ADVICED TO KEEP ALL LOTTERY INFORMATION FROM ANY THIRD PARTY AS WE
WILL NOT ENTERTAIN
CASES OF MULTIPLE CLAIMS PROCESSING OR COMPROMISE THE PRIVACY AND SECURITY
OF YOU THE WINNER.
THIS IS IN LINE WITH THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF THE FREE LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION.
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