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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: "michael grade" <uklotto@villasworld.net>
Reply-To: infouklotto@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:04:33 +0100
Subject: YOUR-EMAIL HAS WON!!!
THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Olympic Way,Sefton Business Park, Aintree Liverpool, L70 1NL, United
Kingdom.
THINK LUCKY THIS YEAR, THINK U.K. NATIONAL LOTTERY!!
IF YOU ARE THE LEGITIMATE OWNER OF THIS EMAIL ADDRESS, COUNT YOURSELF LUCKY
THIS YEAR 2005 AS YOU ENTER THIS NEW YEAR WITH A VERY PLEASANT SURPRISE. YOU
ARE A WINNER!!!
Our Ref: NWY/UK-NL/0101/05.
Your Ref: NWY/UK-NL/03CTG/0101/05.
Machine Used For the Draw: PEARL.
Ball Set Used: 8.
Jackpot Winners: 2.
Winners by Lucky Dip: 243537
Winning Numbers: 04 - 06 - 09 - 12 - 15 - 40 - 25.
Grand Prize Awards: GBP £ 1,987,470.00
RE: NEW YEAR PROMOTION EMAIL LOTTERY BONUS RESULTS.
On behalf of the U.K. National Lottery Organisation, I congratulate you for
being one of the Two (2) selected lucky Jackpot Winners for this New Year
Promotion Email Lottery Bonus via the Internet which took place on Saturday
21st day of January 2005.
The result of our computer Draw 942 of this day selected your email address
through our internet central database on the lucky jackpot winning number
04 - 06 - 09 - 12 - 15 - 40 – 25 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 £ 1,987,470.00 (One Million, 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
14TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 2005!
ELIGIBILITY: This promotion is offered only electronically via the Internet
with effect from the 1st of January 2005 and is open to all natural persons
age of 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. Robert Alessandro.
Customer Support Unit - CSU,
Camelot Financial Reconciliation Inc.,
T/f No: +44 - 7005 805 268.
Email: infouklotto@netscape.net
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.
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