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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: United Kingdom Lottery <uk.lottery9@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: unitedklottery@super.lt
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 02:54:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Your Lottery Winning
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: uk.lottery9@yahoo.com
- 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 Monday 1st December 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 ?500,000.00 (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.Arison Gray.Email: unitedklottery@super.lt)Phone Number:+44-703-592-2722 Endeavour to submit the below informations as stated below to ................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,State Lottery Company**Customer Service***
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