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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:59:34 -0800 (PST)
Subject: important
hi I got this massage and unfortunately I gave my personal details :( but not a credit card number and account
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YOU HAVE WON £500,00.00 IN STATE LOTTERY!!!
Friday, November 14, 2008 5:46 PM
From:
"Benjamin Johnson" <customerservice@yahoo.co.uk>Add sender to Contacts
To:
undisclosed-recipients
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State Lottery Company (State lorre)
2nd Floor Chiltern House, St Nicholas Court
25 - 27 Castlegate, Nottingham NG1 7AR,
United Kingdom.
http://www.statelottery.com/
Dear Lucky Winner,
We happily announce to you the result of the State lottery draws held on Friday, 14th NOV. 2008, Lotto 6/49 in Essex, United Kingdom. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000.00 companies and personal e-mail addresses.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9564 7560 with serial number 046560 drew the winning numbers 6 7 14 16 17 27 Bonus 32. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of Ј500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited to file EAAL/9080118308/08.
To file for your claim, please contact our corresponding claim agent immediately you read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund.
Contact information is as follow:
Mr. Benjamin Johnson
Email: bencjohnson@info.lt
   Â
Here are the pieces of information needed for you to fill out:
1.Full Name:................................
2.Full Address:.............................
3.Marital Statue:...........................
4.Occupation:...............................
5.Age:.......................................
6.Sex:.......................................
7.Nationality:...............................
8.Tel.Number:..............................
9.Country Of Residence.....................
***Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program.***
Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this promotional lottery program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs Roslyn Booth
**Customer Service**
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