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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: "Rose Woods" <draws_snl@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: snlclaimoffice2@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 06:17:42 +0000
Subject: OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION
THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY.
P O Box 2450 South Bridge,
E70 1NL Edinburgh.
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Service)
TUESDAY MAY 1ST 2007
DEAR WINNER:
OFFICIAL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to announce you as one of the 4 lucky
winners
in THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY draws (#906) held
12pm THURSDAY
08TH MARCH 2007 here in Scotland United Kingdom, Your
e-mail address
attached to email-ticket number ( 97858355Z9), with
serial number
9241/08, drew the lucky numbers (05)-
(50)-(211)-(17)-(11)-(41)
bonus (#09) which subsequently won you the lottery in
the 1ST category
in this month's draw. Our winners are arranged into
four different
categories with different winning prizes accordingly
in each category.
They are arranged in this format below:
CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES
1st. 4 GBP.523,000:00 each
2nd. 10 GBP.120,000:00 each
3rd. 35 GBP.75,000:00 each
4th. 55 GBP.50,000:00 each
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a
total pay out
of GBP523,000 Great British Pounds Sterling ( Five
Hundred And Twenty
Three Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling) only.
YOUR WINNING REF: UK-EG/8869G1/988
WINNING BATCH: EG67/298/07
This is from a total cash prize of GBP 2.092.000.00
(Two Million and
Ninety Two Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling)
shared amongst the
firstfour (4) lucky winners in this category. All 4
lucky winning addresses
were randomly selected from World Wide Web sites
through Computer ballot
system extracted from over 100,000 international
emails, unions,
associations,and corporate bodies that are listed
online. This promotion takes
place Annually. In view of this, your GBP 523,000
Pounds ( Five Hundred And
Twenty Three Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling)
will be released to you
as soon as you contact our Claims Department Manager .
He will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your
funds as soon as you contact
him/her.
Please contact our Claims Department Manager under
listed to
file for your claim. He will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your funds as
soon as you contact
him
Mr. Steve Harper
Claims Department Manager
THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
Email: snlclaimoffice2@yahoo.co.uk
Note: Endeavour to email our Claims Department Manager
and Provide him
with the following informations to complete claims
verification and
Validation process to enable him validate your
winnings/prize money to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him
with these
informations listed below.
Full Names:
Winning Numbers:
Ticket Number:
Email Address:
Telephone Number:
Fax Number:
Complete Mailing Address:
Sex:
Age:
A brief description of yourself:
Unvalidated winnings after Twenty-nine days of winning
notification
will be termed invalid and void. Good luck from me and
members of
staff of THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
Yours faithfully,
Rose Woods (Mrs)
Online co-ordinator,
For: SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY DEPARTMENT.
IF YOU ARE BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE YOU WILL BE
DISQUALIFIED
AUTOMATICALLY.
THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY Awards is proudly
sponsored
by financial Corp's the evergreen group and a
conglomeration of other
international IT companies. THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL
LOTTERY
internet draw is held annually, and is organized to
encourage the use
of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud
to say that over
200 Million Pounds are won every decade in more than
150 countries
worldwide.
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