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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: "wayne emery" <onlinepromotion@ukpromofamily.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 03:20:53 +0000
Subject: LOOPY LOTTO UK WINNING NOTIFICATION
Allegran Ltd
28-29 Great Sutton Street,
London
WEBSITE: www.loopylotto.com
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw of the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, online
loopy lotto Program held on 01-Sep-2005
Your e-mail address attached to numbers: 10,12,23,29,32,35 with Bonus 29
drew the lucky numbers which emerge as winning email.
You can check the result from our website just to confirm.
http://www.loopylotto.com/index.cfm?action=results
Your email subsequently won you one of the Jackpot prizes.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,000,000 (one
Million Pounds Sterling) in cash .
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the
World Wide Web (ALL EMAILS IN THE INTERNET WORLD ) through a computer draw
system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate
bodies that are listed online as we choose emails from all over the world.
This promotion takes place daily. Each day, at or shortly after midnight (UK
time),
there will be a draw ("DRAW") under the supervision of an independent
observer to determine the winning numbers in the GAME that day.
A random number generator using a proprietary random number generation
algorithm will select exactly 6 winning numbers from the range 1-49 and a
bonus winning number from the range 1-49 .
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 £1,000,000 would be released to you by any of our
payment offices in
Europe.
You are to contact your payment office (STAD FINANCE COMPANY UK ) agent via
email for further details.
CONTACT HIM VIA EMAIL OR FAX BELOW.
Mr. Tom Kavangh
Financial Director
Email :claimsagent_05@excite.com
Cc:claimsagent05@hotmail.com
TEL/FAX : +44-8701356594
ADDRESS:NORWOOD ROAD LONDON
That way your Winnings Certificate and all other relevant
documents/paperwork can be prepared for you to enable you claim your
winnings.
You would be required to show an instrument of identification when claiming
your prize i.e. Drivers license or International passport.
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 as a result of the high rate of lottery
scam.
I advice you contact your agent with the email above and you are requested
to do this ASAP and note that the lottery is met to encourage the use of
Internet worldwide and is being sponsored by 150 country financially and the
microsoft company.
PLEASE BE WARMED TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT VIA EMAIL OR FAX AS LATENESS
MAYNOT BE ENTERTAINED.
Good luck from me and members of staff of the U.K LOOPY LOTTO
Yours faithfully,
WAYNE EMERY
Online Co-ordinator for U.K INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
LOOPY LOTTO UK
TEL/FAX:44-87-0912-1658
WEBSITE www.loopylotto.com
NOTE TO CHECK YOUR RESULT CLICK RESULT ON OUR WEBSITE OR TYPE THIS BELOW ON
YOUR INTERNET EXPLORER
http://www.loopylotto.com/index.cfm?action=results
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