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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" <wayne_emery@ukpromofamily.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:32:30 +0000
Subject: Loopy Lotto U.K International lottery 2005 Winning Notification

FROM:PROMOTION DEPARTMENT OF LOOPY LOTTO UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY WINNING
NOTIFICATION

Allegran Ltd
28-29 Great Sutton Street,
London

Loopy Lotto U.K International lottery 2005 Winning Notification

Attention:Sir/Madam,

We happily announce to you the draw of the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY,
online loopy lotto Program held on 8-Aug-2005

Your e-mail address attached to numbers: 11,14,20,25,44,46
with Bonus 36. which subsequently won you one of the Jackpot prizes.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £3,000,000
(Three Million Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file L/UK/252/05/2/17

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the
World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

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 £3,000,000 would be released to you by any of our
payment officies in Europe.

To file for your claim, please contact our financial handlers STAD SECURITY
& FINANCE COMPANY UK, below are the contact information of their financial
director.


Mr.John Brammer
Financial Director
STAD SECURITY & FINANCE COMPANY UK
Email: john_brammer@excite.com
Cc:claimsagent_ssfc@yahoo.co.uk
TEL/Fax:+44-8701356594

Provide him with the information below:

1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11.Email Address:
12.Draw and bonus Number above:


You must initiate contact within two weeks of receipt of this
correspondence.

Stad security & Finance Company UK,are to handle all matters with regards to
claiming of your prize money.

You are also advised to send a copy of this email,to your claims agent Mr
John Brammer, when contacting him.

Be informed that their service have not been paid for as your prize money
have been insured to it's principle value and as such cannot be deducted
from,thus the payment of their professional charges is fully and completely
your responsiblity.

Please dont fail to get back to us after the claim of your winning so that
we will send to you your PRIZE CLAIM CERTIFICATE.


Congratulation once again from me, and members of staff of the U.K LOOPY
LOTTO and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international
programs in the nearest future.
Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Wayne Emery
Online Co-ordinator for U.K INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
LOOPY LOTTO
TEL:+44-87-1239-1129
FAX:44-87-0912-1658
Email:wayne_emery@ukpromofamily.com

PLEASE NOTE: YOU ARE TO KEEP ALL LOTTERY INFORMATIONS FROM PUBLIC AS WE WILL
NOT ENTERTAIN CASES OF MULTIPLE CLAIMS PROCESSING OR COMPROMISE THE PRIVACY
AND SECURITY OF ALL OUR WINNER.THIS IS IN LINE WITH THE DATA PROTECTION ACT
OF THE LOOPY LOTTO UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.



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