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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: prommcordinator <prommcordinator@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 05:24:04 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON!!!


FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT

DEAR WINNER,

WINNER OF SECOND CATEGORY DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the
results of the 2nd Category draws of PROTEA GAMES
SOUTH AFRICA. We are happy to inform you that you have
emerged a winner under the Second Category, which is
part of our promotional draws. The draws were held on
5th JUNE 2004 and results are being officially
announced today. Participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
30,000 names/email addresses of individuals and
companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,
Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our
International Promotions Program.

You/Your company, attached to ticket number
3541-5-486, with serial number 59-22 drew the winning
numbers 05 10 17 19 29 42 (21) and consequently won in
the second Category.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of
US$5,500,000.00 (five million, five hundred thousand
US dollars), which is the winning payout for Category
B winners. This is from the total prize money of
US$16.5 million shared among the 3 winners in this
category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with our International
Funds Transfer agents PINNACLE FINANCE SOLUTIONS and
has been insured in your name. In your best interest
and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any
kind, we request that you keep the entire details of
your award strictly from public notice until the
process of transferring 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/nonparticipants of this program.

We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year
premium stakes draw where you stand a chance of
winning up to US$500 million that will be shared
amongst 10 winners worldwide; we hope that with a part
of your prize you will participate.

Please contact your claims agent immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize money to a
bank account of your choice:

MR. DAVID MOTE,
FINANCE MANAGER,
PINNACLE FINANCE SOLUTIONS.
175 Masjien Street, Strijdom Park. Randburg.
Johannesburg, South Africa
TEL : +27 726975397, +8821646655614
Fax : +27 115076711
Email:financemanager10_pfs@mymail.ph.inter.net

You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or
fax within a week of receiving this notice. Failure to
do so may warrant immediate disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find
below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to
quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: REF: SA/77-301/PFS
BATCH NUMBER: R2/A198-5

Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.


Sincerely,

THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
PROTEA GAMES SOUTH AFRICA
65 EVERSON STREET,
LINDEN - 2104, JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL/FAX: (+27)823622669

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 transfer agent
immediately.

___________________________________________________________________________
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