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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: claimsdepartment <claimsdepartment@web.de> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:23:42 -0400
Subject: winning notification: Ref No: E-A-L549-1
FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
ATTENTION:THIRD CATEGORY WINNER
DEAR SIR/MADAM,
After a successful completion of the third category
draws of EURO AMERICAN
LOTTERY, held on 15th of SEPTEMBER, 2004, we are pleased
to inform you of
the
official announcement today, that you have emerged one
of the winners
of
the EURO AMERICAN LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS,
which is part of our
promotional draws.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from
25,000 email addresses of individuals and companies
from Africa,
America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East,
and New Zealand
as part of our International Promotions Program.
Your email, attached to ticket number 714-5-9827, with
serial
number 14-83 drew the lucky numbers 03, 15, 23, 25,
35, 40, (30), and
consequently won in the Third Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of
US$1.2000000M
in cash, which is the winning payout for third
category winners. This is
from the total prize money of US$19,200,000.00 shared
among the eight
international winners in the Third category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with our corresponding
bank, insured in
your name. To avoid mix up of numbers and names of any
kind, we request
that you keep this award strictly from public notice
until the entire
process of transfering your claims has been completed,
and your funds
remitted to your account. This is part of our security
protocol to
avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by
participants of this program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year
(2004) high stakes
where you stand a chance of winning up to US$55
million, we hope that
with a part of your prize you will participate.
Please contact your claims agent immediately,to begin
your claims
process;
MR. MICHAEL GREENING
CLAIMS DEPT. MANAGER,
EURO AMERICAN LOTTERY UK
EMAIL: euroamericanlottery@mail2agent.com
For due processing and remittance of your prize money
to a designated
account of your choice. Remember, you must contact
your claims agent
within a week of recieving this mail.
NOTE: To avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
please remember to
quote your reference and batch numbers provided below
in every one of
your correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: E-A-L549-1
BATCH NUMBER: 277-DT
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being
part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
EURO AMERICAN LOTTERY UK.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will
result to disqualification. Please do not reply to
this mail. Contact
your claims agent.
___________________________________________________________________________
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