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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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• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. McDanny Cole ( UNL CLAIMS AGENT )" <mr_mcdannycole004@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:49:53 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ATTN.



The National Lottery
PO Box 1010,Liverpool
L70 1NL,United Kingdom.
Ref: XYL /26510460037/05
Batch: 24/00319/IPD


ATTN.

This letter acknowledges the receipt of your requested data. Congratulations once again on behalf of the LOTTERY BOARD, we hope that your winnings will be put into good use for community, educational or business development. On Behalf of the Screening Committee of LOTTERY BOARD, I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the E-mail Screening and Verification Matching Test conducted for all online winners in your Category, hence you are therefore cleared.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:
15 18 23 31 37 49 38 (Bonus ball) 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 £750,000.00( Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling's) in cash credited to file XYL /26510460037/05 . You can check Your winnings at:

http://www.nationallottery-postmaster.co.uk/Home/Check%20Result.php

You can check your winning by matching your Ref Numbers and Batch Numbers ( Ref: XYL /26510460037/05 , Batch: 24/00319/IPD )on our result checking page in the link above.

This is from a total cash prize of £2,250,000.00 (Two Million Two Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling's) shared amongst the (3) 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 co-operate bodies that are listed online. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you.


Your funds is ready for disbursement but due to some difficult bad past experience we do not transfer funds from our own account internationally, in regards to this an online banking account have been created in your name and your winning fund credited in this account. Transferring of funds from our private bank the City Bank is very swift. City Bank online banking system gives access to online transfer of funds by their account holders to any part of the world. The City Bank international online transfer possibility makes City Bank a recommended bank for our lottery winners.

You are now privileged to have your winning security pin code "CB766544L987009" which you will send to the bank as proof of recommendation from the National Lottery . Do note that it is very important that your pin code should be kept confidential to avoid double contact for claims which might result to disqualification of your winnings.

You are to immediately contact the bank with the below information.



City Bank Plc
10 Old Jewry,
London EC2R 8DN
Email: accountdept@cityb-management.co.uk
Web site: http://www.city-b-online.co.uk
Contact Person: Mr. Trevor Blair


Do note that on contact with Mr. Trevor Blair, you are to provide him with your

FULL NAMES:__________________________________
ADDRESS: _________________________________________________
SEX:_______________
OCCUPATION:________________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________

SECURITY PIN CODE:_________________________

This will enable the Bank to verify your claim with the files which has been sent to them.


Have it in mind that your won prize cannot be deducted from, this is because the total amount has been insured to the real value. This is in accordance with section 13(1)(n) of the national gambling act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3RD July 1996 by the constitutional assembly, this is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds.

Its is imperative that you use your security pin code {CB766544L987009} as the subject of any correspondence with the bank to ensure they respond in a timely manner. I will require a concise update on proceedings with the bank as soon as you are in contact with them.


Regards,

Mr. McDanny Cole




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