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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_office@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:08:19 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?YOUR=20UK=20LOTTO=20WINNING=20NOTIFICATION?=

UK PRIME LOTTO OFFICE
UK PRIME LOTTO
INTERNATIONAL
16-19 FUTON RD
CORSICAWEG
ARMSTERDAM
HOLLAND.
MARCH 2005
Ref:
UK/9420X2/68Batch:
074/05/ZY369
Attention,
Winning Notification
We happily announce to you the draw of the UK-LOTTO Sweepstake Lottery
International programs held on the 21ST of JANUARY, 2005 in AMSTERDAM
HOLLAND.
Your e-mail address attached to SERIAL NUMBER 56475600545 188 with
TICKET
NUMBER PLI/4080318306/O4-5368/02 drew the lucky
numbers:19-6-26-17-35-7,
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have
therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of US$12,500,000.00 (Twelve
million,Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in cash credited to file
ktu/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of US $ 125 Million dollars, shared
amongst
the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category. All participants
were
selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system

and
extracted from over 100,000 companies.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our
European

booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon.In
view of this, your US$12,500,000.00 (Twelve million,Five Hundred
Thousand
United States Dollars) would be released to you by our payment office
in
europe. Our European agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security
reasons,
you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till
your
claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner
you
deem fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming
and

unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please

be
warned. To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent at
the
legal department:

Barrister SMITH COLE
Email: barrsmithcole@yahoo.com

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
full

names, your country, your private Telephone and fax number, your
reference/batch numbers etc in any correspondences with us or our
designated
agent. Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this
program.


Thanks for your co operation
Sincerely,
PAUL SMITH.
UK-LOTTO Co-ordinator





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