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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: "Monica Bradley" <mbradley_lottery@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:30:36 +0000
Subject: Congratulations!!!
The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
Ref: XYL /26510460037/05
Batch: 24/00319/IPD
Dear Winner,
We happily announce to you the draw (#1025) of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International
program held on Friday 20th of Jan 2006.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number:56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category i.e match 5 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of £200,833 ( Two Hundred thousand, eight hundred and
thirty three Pounds sterlings) in cash credited to
file XYL /26510460037/05 .
This is from a total cash prize of £803,332(Eight
Hundred and three thousand, three hundred and thirty
two Pounds Sterlings.) shared amongst the (4) lucky
winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.
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. This promotion takes place weekly.
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 £200,833 ( Two Hundred
thousand, eight hundred and thirty three Pounds
sterlings) would be released to you by any of our
payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your funds as
soon as you contact him.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your
winning information confidential till your claim 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.
Please be warned. To file for your claim, please
contact our claims agent:
Overseas Claims Unit
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
Raymond Cole.
Email:london_payment_centre@walla.com
Our European agent will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You
may wish to establish
contact via e-mail with the particulars presented
above citing the batch
and reference numbers to this letter.
Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of
confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and
beyond where they so
desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest
level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to
circumvent problems
associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our
precautionary
measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse
of this program.
Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Monica Bradley (Mrs)
Online co-ordinator for UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,
You can go to our online result site to confirm the
value of your winnings and also
get a prize breakdown:-
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do
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