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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: "lottery award" <la73617@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mm_yyfk@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:10:56 -0700
Subject: winner
UK CHARITY FOUNDATION AWARD PROMOTION,
Suite 154, Clarendon Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD61JF, London
United Kingdom.
Dear Winner,
We happily announce to you that you have won our International Charity Award
of
US$150,000 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars) during the 2008
Global
Internet Summit titled "Discovering Greatness", held in the London,
United
kingdom. All 30 winning Addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
50,000,000 international Emails. Your Email address emerged
alongside 29 others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual UK CHARITY
FOUNDATION PROMOTION LOTTERY draw. No tickets were sold.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
US$150,000
only. The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:
(i) Winning Serial Number: 900-102-447
(ii) Email Ticket Number: UK754/22/76
(iii) Lotto Code Number: TL09622UK
(iv) File Ref Number: ICA/11-GIS/2008UK
Please contact the under listed claims Agent as soon as possible for the
immediate release of your winnings:
Claims Agent:
Mr. Johnson Phillip
E-=MAIL: mrjohnsonphillip@yahoo.com
Phone# +44 750679556
N.B: Steps to claiming your prize;
1. Contact your claims Agent immediately you receive this notification to
begin
the claims process.
2. You are required to send your full name(s) as it should appear on the
Certificate of Winning that would be issued to you, and fill the below
Non-Private Information when contacting the Agent.
A. FULL NAME(S): ________________________________
B. ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, COUNTRY: ________________
C. SEX: ________________________________________
D. AGE: _______________________________________
E. OCCUPATION: _______________________________
F. WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS: ____________________________
G. TELEPHONE NUMBER: ________________________
H. File Ref Number:________________________
3. Also quote your File reference Number as given above while contacting the
Agent. This is very important and compulsory on first correspondence with
your
claims Agent.
On behalf of the entire UK CHARITY FOUNDATION stakeholders, I say
congratulations!!!
Sincerely,
Cindy Charlton
Promotion Manager
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