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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: roberto cusso <rozxz01@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 11:25:47 -0700
Subject: Regards to her.
Attention Please. I humbly seek for your co-operation as a reliable and honest person, to present you to my company (UK NATIONAL LOTTERY) as the player and winner of an unclaimed lottery drew held in January 2004.
I am a staff of the UK National Lottery, whose duty is to collate/compute purchased, paid and unclaimed lottery tickets before and after each draw. In the course of my duty, I discover a ticket number that won Nine million three hundred and eighty two thousand four hundred and ninety six pounds (£9,382,496.00) from the Lotto draw held in January 2004, and ever since nobody has come forward to make claim. NOTE THE FOLLOWING; 1. You have not won any lottery prize if you have not purchased a ticket for the UK National Lottery draw, you wont have won a prize. Get detail on how and when you can be play and win a UK National lottery prize from the following sites;www.national-lottery.co.uk
2. I have contacted you to stand out as the owner and player of the unclaimed, which will automatically, makes you the winner of the winning prize (£9,382,496.00).
3.As a staff of the UK National lottery, I'll conduct you on how to apply for claim/ prize in accordance to the UK National lottery claims rules and regulations - meaning you would applying for the claim legally.
4. Ive the complete information of the winning ticket (the duplicate copy of the ticket, date, place and time of purchase)
5. On your acceptance to claim the prize, am willing to share the winning prize with you on a 50% - 50 % bases (£4,691,248.00 for each of us)
MOST IMPORTANTLY:
If I/we do not claim this winning prize, it will automatically be forfeited and be transferred to the National Lottery Distribution Fund or the Olympic Lottery Distribution Fund (AS THE COMPANY MAKES THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO BELIEVE) but truth is that the money will eventually finds its way to the company's and the Camelot's TOP OFFICIALS private pocket directly or indirectly over time.
LOTTERY SCAM WARNING: UK National lottery has spent millions of pounds trying to enlighten, educate the general public and all internet uses about the various e-mail lottery scams. Please visit the listed web sites to enable you recognize fake and scam e-mail lottery.http://www.lottery.co.uk/info/scams.asp
Please call me on the receipt of this e-mail - Thank you. Yours truly,Mr. R.CPhone: + 44 779 647 1193Email: roxxz@aol.co.uk STATEMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY"The information in this e-mail contains confidential information and is intended solely for the attention and use of the addressee(s). It may not be disclosed to any person without authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are not authorized to and must not disclose, copy, distribute or retain this message or any part of it."
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