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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: "verawhite" <verawhite@flashmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 06:10:49 -0800
Subject: Dear Winner
THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
The Marina Offices,
upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England
Dear Winner,
We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners
in the FreeLotto draw held on the MAY 2nd 2005. All 10
winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
50,000,000 international emails.Your email address emerged
alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's
Annual FreeLotto Draw.
Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total
pay out of 1,000,000 pounds (one million pounds) only.The
following particulars are attached to your lotto payment
order:
(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK
Due to the mix up of some numbers and email, we ask that
you keep this award strictly from public notice until your
claim has been processed and your money remitted to your
account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of
this program.
Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as
possible for the immediate release of your winnings:
Robert Kirton
Chief financial Director
The Freelotto Company
TEL:+447040106494
TEL:+447040117493
FAX:+448701308158
robertkt2005@xasamail.com
For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice. Remember,you must
contact your claims officer not later than one week from the
receipt of this mail.After this date, all funds will be
returned as unclaimed.All correspondences to ROBERT KIRTON
by email should have this email sent along with it and also,
your email address to which this email is sent,should be
clearly and boldly written in your response.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please remember to quote your reference
number in every one of your correspondences with your
officer.Furthermore,should there be any change of your
address, do inform your claims officer as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for
being part of our promotions program.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely,
Vera White
Promotions Manager
The Lotto company
UK & Europe.
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The FreeLotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell
computers,Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other
international
IT companies.The freelotto internet draw is held once in a
year and is so organized to encourage the use of the
internet and computers worldwide.We are proud to say that
over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150
countries worldwide.
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We also encourage you to visit our website at
www.freelotto.com and take your chance to play and become
part of our daily winners. Millions are won on a daily basis
on one of the world's most famous free lotto service.
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