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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: "Mr Michael Grade CBE" <michaelgrade@tsamail.co.za> (may be fake)
Reply-To: newman_emiko@yahoo.co.in
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:15:30 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree Liverpool, L70 1NL, United Kingdom.
Our Ref: NWY/UK-NL/0101/05. Your Ref:
NWY/UK-NL/03CTG/0101/05.
Machine Used For the Draw: AMETHYST
Ball Set Used: 1
Jackpot Winners: 1
Winners by Lucky Dip: 250177
Winning Numbers: 01 - 02 - 08 - 09 - 41 - 48 - 29
Grand Prize Awards: GBP £ 987,470.00,
Dear our treasured lucky winner,
RE: PROMOTION EMAIL LOTTERY BONUS RESULTS.
On behalf of the National Lottery Organisation, I
congratulate you for
being one of the selected lucky Jackpot Winners for
this Promotion
Email Lottery Bonus via the Internet which took place
on 12th day of March
2005.
The result of our computer Draw 962 of this day
selected your email
address through our internet central database on the
lucky jackpot winning
number 01- 02 - 08 - 09 - 41 - 48 - 29 which
consequently won the
lottery jackpot grand prize awards in the 3rd
category.
As a result, you have been approved a lottery jackpot
lump sum grand
prize awards winning of GBP £ 987,470.00 (Nine Hundred
and Eighty Seven
Thousand, Four Hundred and Seventy Great British
Pounds Sterling Only)
which is currently bonded and insured under a
comprehensive insurance
policy in your names as the legitimate owner of this
email address being
the true and lawful beneficiary of this Prize Awards
winning. This
prize award winning is from the total amount of
GBP£20,628,037 shared among
the 878,132 lucky winners in this category as part of
our New Year 2005
Promotional programme to encourage overseas
participants in subsequent
email lottery. This is your Golden opportunity that
your fate has
brought to you and we are well pleased to have you in
our master database.
You have the options of being paid by Cash, Certified
Bank Draft or
Swift Telegraphic Transfer as you desire. NO PRIZES
WILL BE RE-ISSUED
AFTER THE 25TH DAY OF APRIL 2005!
ELIGIBILITY: This promotion is offered only
electronically via the
Internet and is open to all natural persons age at
least 16 years and older
with a valid email address recorded in our central
database. This
promotion is void where prohibited. Principals and
employees of the National
Lottery and its respective parents, subsidiaries and
immediate family
members of each are not eligible to claim their prize
awards. We have
always strived to keep the games easy to play and win,
keep the games
fresh and interesting, respond to emails from
players/advertisers and
lucky winners as quickly as possible and pay our
winners as fast as
possible after all statutory obligations have been
duly completed on the part
of Overseas winners. We feel we have accomplished this
and this is
probably one of the main reasons that we have been
able to stay in business
and rated the best National Lottery organisation among
others.
CLAIM PROCEDURES: All overseas lucky winners must be
able to identify
themselves in association with the selected lucky
email address to claim
their prizes as allocated and also it is our standard
practices to
allocate accredited claim agents for the processing of
claim application on
behalf of overseas lucky winners and payment of prize
awards to the
benefit of lucky winners after all modalities have
been completed
satisfactorily. To begin your claims therefore, you
are advised on final notice
and as a matter of urgency, to contact our licensed
and accredited
claim agent for Overseas Lucky Winners for the
processing of your prize
awards winning file and payment of your prize to your
designated bank
account. Contact the under-listed institution by
phone, fax or email for
your application to be submitted and processed for
payment thus:
Contact Officer: Mr. Emiko Newman .
Customer Support Unit - CSU,
CTlot Financial Reconciliation Inc.,
T/f No: +44 - 7040 118312.
Fax No: +44- 7040 118313.
Email: newman_emiko@yahoo.co.in
Be advised to officially introduce yourself to your
claim agent as
allocated with a copy of this award notification
letter and present your
full contact information, Your Telephone and Fax
Number and valid means
of personal identification as true beneficiary/lucky
winner of this
lottery jackpot grand prize to enhance your payment
processes.
IMPORTANCE NOTICE: (a) Being an Overseas lucky winner,
you constitute
entrant's full and unconditional agreement to and
acceptance to comply
with the terms and conditions of claims to avoid any
discrepancy in the
cause of payment of your grand prize awards winning.
(b) Due to mixed up in some numbers and names and for
the purpose of
confidentiality, be advised to keep this award
notification as secret
from public notice until your claim has been processed
and your prize
money remitted to your designated bank account as this
is part of our
precautionary measures to avoid double claim or misuse
of this programme by
some social miscreants. Hence, your prize award
winning is confidential
as our winners are at liberty to remain completely
anonymous until
payment is effected to the benefit of the beneficiary.
Our staffs are sworn
to secrecy, so you will be the only one to know what
you have won
hence, this notification via this medium (EMAIL) to
avoid interception of
official letters by post.
c) By this bonus grand prize awards winning, you
acknowledge your
understanding and acceptance to be added to our
lottery master player
database.
(d) By this bonus grand prize awards winning, you
agree to receive our
periodic mailings which will include, but are not
limited to:
Newsletters, Invitations to Play, Announcements for
other Lottery Games and
Offers we feel would be of interest to our master
player.
(e) By this bonus grand prize awards winning, you
understand that you
have the right to be removed from any such mailing
list which
automatically disqualifies you from subsequent lottery
entries. Removal
instructions are on every mailing.
(f) Finally, we hereby do solemnly guarantee to
maintain the privacy of
our master players/lucky winners database and shall
not make available
for sale, rent, lease or misuse any information about
our players/lucky
winners. Hence, our staffs are sworn to secrecy
thereby guaranteeing
adequate security of personal information provided by
our players/lucky
winners.
In conclusion therefore, you are to take cognizance of
the limited time
frame for claim processing and payment of your grand
prize award
winning hence, this is promotional programme prize
awards for a stipulated
period of time and therefore, be advise on final
notice to begin your
claim immediately as all prize award winnings must be
claimed and
disbursed within the stipulated period tagged "End of
Claim" date as elapse of
this date will authorized funds withholding for
redirection to Charity
Account as abandoned/unclaimed without notice. On this
note once again,
we congratulate you for this lucky grand prize award
and wish you the
best of luck everyday in all your life endeavours.
As always, we remain at your complete disposal.
Yours faithfully,
Michael Grade CBE,
Promotion Director.
International Promotions Unit,
UK National Lottery Organisation,
Liverpool L70 1NL, United Kingdom
Security Advice
At The National Lottery we understand the importance
of security.
That's why we've created highly secure facilities to
give you confidence
during our promotions programs or when you play our
games online, on TV
via Sky Active or using your mobile phone to play by
text.
Warning: Fraudulent emails are circulating that
appears to be using
National Lottery addresses, but are not from us. If
you receive similar
email that is not from us, kindly disregard/discard it
immediately. Do
NOT reply any such email but genuine email from us via
this email
address. Our security pages that will give you more
information about current
scams and what measures you can take to protect
yourself from them
shall be mailed to you periodically.
Anti-fraud resources: