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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: goldstrikelottery@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:49:53 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!
FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Dear Recipient,
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "B" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the
First
Category draws of GOLDEN STRIKE LOTTERY UK. We are happy to inform you
that
you have emerged a winner under the Second Category, which is part of
our
promotional draws. The draws were held prior to your notification .
Participants
were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000
names/email
addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,
Australia,Europe,
Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions
Program.
You/Your company email id, attached to ticket number 6422-5-486, with
serial
number 59-18 drew the lucky numbers 33-92-78-05 (18) and consequently
won
in the Second Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of £2,500,000 (Two
million,
five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds), which is the winning
payout
for Category"B" winners. This is from the total prize money of
£5,000,000
shared among the 2 winners in this category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with our transfer agents TRANS-GLOBAL SECURITY
UK
and
insured in your name. In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of
numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire
details
of your award strictly from public notice until the process of
transferring
your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your
account.This
is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous
acts by participants/nonparticipants of this program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year premium stakes
draw
where you stand a chance of winning up to £50 million; we hope that
with
a part of your prize you will participate in it.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and
remittance
of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
MR. ALLAN YOUNG,
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER,
TRANS-GLOBAL SECURITY UK
TEL/FAX: +44 709 281 1113
EMAIL:findirec_1@yahoo.com
You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or fax within a week
of receiving this notice. Failure to do so may warrant
disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your reference
and
Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence
with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: GLUK/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER: R5/A312-59
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being
part
of our promotional program.
Sincerely,
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
GOLDEN STRIKE LOTTERY UK
1 BRIDGE STREET,
STAINES MIDDLESEX TW18 4TP UK
N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result
to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail box. Contact your
claims agent immediately.
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