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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: uk_lotto@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:29:10 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WINNING=20NOTIFICATION?=


UK SWEEPSTAKES LOTTO
140 NORTHAMPTON ROAD
EC1R 0HB LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: NBM44125677 AND BATCH NO: 31/307/EF.

ATTENTION: Sir/Madam,
RE/ AWARD NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 12th October 2004
of winners of the UK SWEEPSTAKES LOTTO/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS held on the
17TH of August 2004 in Athens, Greece as part of our bonanza to commemorate
the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad.
Your email address, attached to ticket number 1416-4612-750, with serial
number 3187-17 drew the lucky numbers 31-17-8-28-55 and consequently won
the lottery in the "A" category. With funds accrued exclusively from previous
annual draws, payouts to all winners are guaranteed and will be transferred
in record time.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 5,500,000.00
Euros (Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros) in cash credited to file
REF NO: NBM44125677. This is from total prize money of 16,500,000.00 Euros
shared among the Three (3) international winners in this category. After
randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database of 300,000
emails, all participants were selected through a computer ballot system
from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, North America and Oceania
as part of our International Promotions Program.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with STANDARD TRUST INC., a security House. You
are advised to keep all winning lottery information and numbers from the
public until your claim has been processed and your money remitted, in line
with our company's security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program by unscrupulous individuals.
We hope that with a part of your prize, you will participate in our end
of year high stakes Euro 10 million International Lottery.
To begin your claim, please contact your claims agent below; for due processing
and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice.

MR. COLINS RICHARDS,
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
STANDARD TRUST INC
40 GROSVENOR SQUARE
W1A 1AE LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM.
Tel.: +44 7040106608
FAX: +44-7092812820
MOBILE SATELITE NUMBER: +873-762-763-590
EMAIL: standardtrust_inc@yahoo.com

Remember, you must contact your claims agent not later than the 22th of
October 2004. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.
All correspondences to MR. COLINS RICHARDS, either by fax or email, should
have this EMAIL sent along with it. Also, your FULL Names, Address and Country
of residence, should be clearly and BOLDLY WRITTEN IN YOUR RESPONSE to your
claims agent.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember
to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences
with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address,
do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Please be informed that NON-RESIDENCE of THE UK will be required to procure
an Affidavit of Lotto Claim/Court clearance certificate from the Court in
the united kingdom prior to award payment policy of Organizers/British Gaming
Board as required by the paying Authority.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of
our promotions program.
Sincerely,
MRS.REBBECA ANDERSON.
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
UK SWEEPSTAKES LOTTO
140 NORTHAMPTON ROAD,
EC1R 0HB LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM.
N.B.
Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result in
automatic disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your
claims agent directly.
****PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL***** This e-mail and any attached files are from
UK Sweepstakes Lotto and are confidential and may be legally privileged.
If you are not the addressee,any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution,
or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited.
If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender
immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed
to be secure or error free as information can be intercepted, corrupted,
lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. UK Sweepstakes
Lotto therefore does not accept any errors or omissions in the contents
of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.





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