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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: Hillary Martins <infohillarymartinss@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 08:28:19 +0100 (BST)
Subject: UK-LOTTO Headquarters: Fred Kuefler
Fred Kuefler,
The entire staff of the LOTTERY congratulate you for being one of the lucky winners in this months on-line lottery promotion. You are indeed lucky because your email address won you the sum of £250,000 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand British pounds sterling). Your e-mail was among the email accounts extracted for this program and all participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies all over the world.
And i want to let you know that your won prize is well protected and the security code is with us and you will get it very soon, all i want to advise you right now to do, is to follow the instruction that is going to be given to you by the Courier or Bank.
Please do contact them for immediate payment.
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