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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: daany jordaan124 <daany_jordaan124@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <uk.claimagent@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:11:12 +0200
Subject: YOU WON OUR UK LOTTERY
The Camelot Group.Operators of the National UK Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park ,Aintree, Watford , L30 1RD
REFN0:UKL/74 A0802742006 BATCH NO: 2006UKL-01
LOTTERY WINNING NOTICE
Congrats,
The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address of the ballot lottery international program will be held five times every year. Your email account have been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and Sixty Thousand Great Britain pounds (£ 860,000,00 pounds sterling) in cash credited to REF: UKL/74-A0802742006. This is from total prize money of GBP £4,300,000.00 shared among the FIVE (5) international winners in this category.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn from over 100,000,000,00 names database, union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion is this year's United Kingdom National Lottery New Year bonanza. The Camelot Group, operators of the United Kingdom National Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). Kindly provide us with the following informations while making the contacts through your claims agent:
Your full name.
Your full address.
Your private telephone, mobile and fax numbers.
Your country of origin.
Your date of birth.
Your Company name or place of work
To begin your claim, please contact your claims agent:
NAME: MR.JOHN SMITH.
TEL: +44-703-183-2555.
EMAIL: uk.claimagent@yahoo.co.uk
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Dianne Thompson,
Online Coordinator,
CAMELOT GROUP,
Operator of the National Lottery.
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