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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: "Royal National Lottery UK" <A01190337@itesm.mx>
Reply-To: mr_halescoth@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:21:33 -0700
Subject: WINNING NOTICE FOR SILVER STAKE WINNER -Ref.No.-RNL/051/652659966/UK.
FROM:PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LOTTERY,WINNING NOTICE FOR
SILVER STAKE WINNER -Ref.No.-RNL/051/652659966/UK.
Attention:
The Royal National Lottery has just concluded its final draws of it's periodical
promotional program.An exclusive list of email addresses of thousands of
individual and corporate bodies were picked by automated random computer
search from the internet.
No tickets were sold.
Your email address emerged as one of seven winners in the silver stakes category
as email addresses were soughted,fromatotal number of 25,000 addresses drawn
from all over the globe.
After an automated computer ballot of our Royal National Lottery
program,only SEVEN winners emerged in this category and therefore each are
to receive payouts of EU1,500,000.00 (ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
EURO ONLY) from the total ofEU10,500, 000.00 (TEN MILLION,FIVEHUNDRED
THOUSAND EURO).
However,every email address selected was accompanied by a reference and ticket
number,after the cyber lottoselection,the below ticket and reference numbers
emereged as one of the lucky winners in the above category.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Reference number for your prize is:Ref. No.- RNL/051/652659966/UK,Ticket
No.- RNL87866UK.
For confirmation of the claim of your prize money, you are to send an email
to our customer service representative with informations below for further
instructions on how you can claim your prize:
Mr Scott Hales
Customer Service Representative
Royal National Lottery UK,
email:mr_halescoth@hotmail.com
contact: +44 704 571 3307
You may be required to provide any of the above information during the process
of collecting your prize.We congratulate you once again and it is our hope
that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest
future.
Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!!!.
Sincerely,
Promotions Department
Royal National Lottery
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