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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: WORLD CUP LOTTERY <world_wc35@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <worldcup2010free_lottery@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:19:59 +0000
Subject: Dear Lucky Winner
WORLD CUP 2010FREE LOTTERY DRAW HEADQUARTERS,LIVERPOOL LONDON,UNITED KINGDOM. Dear Lucky Winner, We are pleased to announce your email address as one of the 200 lucky winners in the Free Lotto draw held on the 27th of October 2007. All 200winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 100,000,000{ONE HUNDRED MILLION} international emails addresses.
Consequently, You have therefore been approved for a total payout ofGBP £1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION POUNDS) only. Your email addressemerged along side with 199 others as a category of winner in this year's Annual Draw. The world cup lottery 2010 is proudly sponsored by the MicrosoftCorporation, Coca Cola, Nokia, MTN, the Intel Group, Toyota ,Toshiba.The world cup free lottery draw is held once in every four years interval. And is also organized to encourage the use of internet and computers.We are proud to say that over GBP £25 Million Pounds are won annuallyin more than 150 countries world-wide. Consequently, You have therefore been approved for a total payout of GBP £1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION POUNDS)only. The following particulars are attached to your lotto paymentorder:For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till you claim your prize money.This is part of ourprecautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned. To file your claim, please contact our UK Representative Agent withyour winning details and fill the form below to enable us process yourwinning prize.
NAME.................ADDRESS..............PHONE................OCCUPATION...........AGE..................SEX..................NATIONALITY..........
NOTE: WE HAVE TWO OPTION OF DELIVERY WON PRIZES TO WINNERS, WHICH IS THROUGH COURIER OR DIRECT BANK TRANSFER.
NAME: Mr. Anold StillEMAIL: worldcup2010free_lottery@yahoo.co.uk
Sincerely, Mrs. Larisa Hull.Promotions Manager
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