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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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From: "U.K. NATIONAL LOTTERY" <helpdesk.cfr@winning.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 21:30:15 +0200
Subject: THINK LUCKY, THINK U.K. NATIONAL LOTTERY!
U.K. NATIONAL LOTTERY
Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree Liverpool, L70 1NL, United Kingdom.
THINK LUCKY, THINK U.K. NATIONAL LOTTERY!
IT'S AMAZING BUT IT'S REAL!!
IF YOU ARE THE LEGITIMATE OWNER OF THIS EMAIL ADDRESS, YOU HAVE JUST WON A PRIZE!!!
Batch: 093/05/EM/01
Ref: UK-05/NL/01CTG/0316.
Grand Prize Awards: GBP £ 2,634,670
Machine Used For the Draw: OPEAL.
Jackpot Winners: 4
Ball Set Used: 6.
Winning Numbers: 02 - 11 - 27 - 29 - 36 - 44 – 15.
Dear our treasured lucky winner,
RE: GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION FINAL NOTICE.
Congratulations! You have been chosen among Four (4) other lucky jackpot winners to receive a total sum of GBP £2,634,670 (Two Million Six Hundred and Thirty Four Thousand Six Hundred and Seventy Great British Pounds Sterling Only) representing your total grand prize award winnings on 2nd Category of our computer draw 1016 for Promotion E-mail Lottery jackpot Bonus via the internet drawn on Saturday 17 Sep 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 67595209380 344 with Serial number 2043/21 drew the lucky numbers: 02 - 11 - 27 - 29 - 36 - 44 – 15, which subsequently won the lottery in the 1st category. That is, match 6 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GBP £2,634,670 (Two Million Six Hundred and Thirty Four Thousand Six Hundred and seventy Great British Pounds Sterling Only) credited to file UK-05/NL/01CTG/0316.
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 and you have the options of being paid by Cash, Certified Bank Draft or Telegraphic Swift Transfer payable to your bank account as you so desire.
ELIGIBILITY: This promotion is offered only electronically via the Internet 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 organization 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 file for your claim, please contact our licensed and accredited claim agent company at your earliest convenient by phone, fax or email for your application to be submitted and processed for payment by using the following contact information as stated below:
Contact Officer: MICHEAL OLIVER (Mr.).
Position: UK Lottery Verification Department,
Email: helpdesk.cfr@winning.com
Phone No: +44 (0) 7092 300 943.
Phone No: +44 (0) 7040 129 993.
Fax No: +44 (0) 7005 - 807 - 564
Institution: Camelot Group (UK) Inc.,
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 emails/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 program 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.
Congratulations!!
Yours faithfully,
MR. BRIAN HUNT,
Online Coordinator,
U.K. National Lottery,
London, 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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