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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: Baumler_Stacey <Baumler_Stacey@roberts.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:24:52 -0400
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?You_Won_=A3750,000.00_in_the_Lucky_draw_held,contact_Mr_Ba?=
=?iso-8859-1?Q?rry_Jones_on_agentbarryjones@gmail.com?=
UK National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
Ref: UK/9420X/05
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Dear Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME, held on the 1st of AUGUST,2008.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number5368/02 drew the winning numbers:01-14-21-3-35-48, and a bonus number of 24 which subsequently won you the lottery in the second category.You have there fore been approved to claim a total sum of £750.000 (Seven Hundred and fifty thousand Pounds Sterling)in cash credited to KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £6,782 shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category. Allparticipants of this online promotion programme were selected randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from close to 125,000 unions.Your assigned claims agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him via electronic mail(email).To file for your claim, please complete the form below and send it to your claims agent via Email.
Name: Mr Barry Jones
Email: agentbarryjones@gmail.com
Tel:+44 702 404 7142
VERIFICATION FORM
FULL NAME................................................
WINNING E-MAIL..................................
FULL ADDRESS:............................................
SEX:................................
AGE....................................
OCCUPATION.............................
TEL.................... MOBILE................
COUNTRY................................
Yours Truly,
Sir Baumler Stacey (Co-ordinator)
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