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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 09:38:41 -0600
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Congratulation,_You_Have_Won_=A3800,000.00?=
The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL
Send your Reply to uk.terrycole@hotmail.co.uk<mailto:uk.terrycole@hotmail.co.uk>
This electronic mail is to inform you that you have
won the sum of £800,000.00 (GBP) in the
UK National Lottery Official On-Line Draw through a random selection
of email address. This draw is done Monthly.
The official drawing for the aforementioned jackpot
was performed in Liverpool at the Office of the
National Lottery Commission at 12:00pm on November 1st,
2008. In the above noted drawing, your
contact information was selected from a pool of
24,667,309 Emails extracted through the world wide web.
Your winning information's are:
Winning Num: 18, 19, 25, 30, 33, 43 Bonus 04
Batch Num: R3/A312-59
Reference Num: LSUK/2031/8161/05
For additional information in claiming your prize,
you must contact our fiduciary Agent
at the below noted email address;
Mr. Terry Cole (Fiduciary Agent)
Email: uk.terrycole@hotmail.co.uk<mailto:uk.terrycole@hotmail.co.uk>
For verification please provide your:
Name
Address
Sex
Telephone Number
Age
Occupation
Batch and Reference Number when responding.
Thank you and congratulation.
Lowrey, Cherish
Fiduciary & Notification Department
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
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