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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: British National Lottery <ukclaimschrisbrown@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:04:54 -1200
Subject: Confirmation Letter From The Lottery Office.
BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
28 TAN FIELD ROAD,
CROYDON, LONDON.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Dear Selected Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement of the UK National Lottery Online Promo Programme held on the
26TH of May, 2007. We have been sending this notice to you but this is the last as we are about distributing winnings
to winners. The draw was done electronically with several email addresses provided to this office by microsoft to
enhance the utilization of the internet.
Your email address was attached to Reference Number UK/9420X2/68 and was picked as one of the ten winning email
addresses. This has qualified you to claim the total cash prize Of £753,437(Seven Hundred and Fifty Three
Thousand,Four Hundred and Thirty Seven Pound Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £7,534,370.00 shared amongst the first ten (10) lucky winners in this category
B.Your winnings will be issued to you as soon as our claims department verify your winning after you might have filled
the payment processing form below.
Payment Processing Form for filing of claims.
1.Name in full.
2.Address in full.
3.Age.
4.Phone No.
5.Occupation
6.Winning Email Address
This will enable us process your payment processing form. You are advised to contact our claims department via these
details:
ASSIGNED CLAIMS AGENT: Mr. Chris Brown
EMAIL: ukclaimschrisbrown@yahoo.co.uk
TEL.: +44 703 192 5541,+44 703 192 5496
Quote Your Reference Number as UK/9420X2/68 when
you are filing your claims.
Yours Faithfully,
Sir Steven Smith
Online Co-ordinator
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