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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: "frank goodman" <lotto@contactukwinnings.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:35:14 +0000
Subject: LOTTERY AWARD NOTIFICATION/PROCESSING ADVICE
The National Lottery
P O Box 1223
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
LOTTERY AWARD NOTIFICATION/PROCESSING ADVICE:
We happily announce to you the draw (#443) of The
National Lottery, Online Sweepstakes International
Program held on Wednesday 2nd june 2005. Your email
address attached to ticket/serial number 4717-05, with
serial number 7665-43 drew the lucky numbers:
2-19-28-33-44-49 (bonus no. 21), With Ref. Number:
TNL/7120T05/68, Batch Number: 02/005/TNL905 and
subsequently won the lottery in the 2nd category.i.e
match 6.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of £714,075 (Seven hundred and forteen thousand,
seventy five pounds sterling) in cash credited to file
KTU/908754634308/05. This is from a total cash prize
of £2,856,300 shared amongst the first four (4) lucky
winners in this category i.e Match 6.
All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer
draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions,
associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
online.
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 £714,075 (Seven hundred and forteen
thousand, seventy five pounds sterling) would be
released to you by any of our payment offices.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
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. Our European
agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you
contact him. This is part of our precautionary measure
to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program. Please be warned. Deductions from WINNING SUM
is not allowed until the WINNING SUM has been handed
over to the winner. To file for your claim, please
contact our fiduciary agent:
FRANKGOODMAN
The National Lottery
P O Box 1275
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
Email:frankgoodn@yahoo.co.uk
You can go to our online result site to confirm the
value of your winnings and also get a prize
breakdown:-
All prize money must be claimed in ten working days.
After this date, all funds will be returned as
unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please remember to quote your reference
and batch numbers in every correspondence with your
agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of your
address, do inform your claims agent as soon as
possible. Congratulations once again from our team of
staff and thank you for being part of our promotional
program.
Please include your private telephone and fax numbers
while replying.
Sincerely,
Barr. HARRY LLYOD
Lottery Coordinator
Note: Anybody under the age of 17 is AUTOMATICALY
DISQUALIFIED and Any BREACH of CONFIDENTIALITY on the
part of the WINNERS will result to disqualification.
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