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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: tonyfashmol1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 04:55:05 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?DEAR=20WINNER?=
From:The lottery Coordinator,
International Promotions/Prize Award
Department
Attention,
Results for third category draws:
PROTEA GAMES SOUTH AFRICA wishes to
inform you of the results of It'S Promotional
draws held on the 20TH DEC 2004. We are
happy to officially inform you that you
have emerged a winner under our Third
Category Draws, which is part of our
promotional draws. Participants
were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 40,000 names/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.
You/Your company, attached to ticket
number 01-87-436, with serial number 61-217
drew the lucky numbers 04, 19, 22, 25, 34, 36
(20) and consequently won in the Third
Category. You have therefore been awarded
a lump sum pay out of USD 2,500,000.00
(Two Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) in cash, which is the
winning payout for Third Category winners.
This is from the total prize money of USD
12,500,000.00 shared between 5 international
winners in the Third category.
CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now
deposited with INTERSCOPE FINANCE
GROUP insured. 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
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/nonparticipants 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 USD 10.5 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. TONY FASHMOL
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER,
INTERSCOPE FINANCE GROUP.
EMAIL: tonyfashmol@andinia.zzn.com
For due processing and remittance of your
prize money to a designated account of your
choice. Remember, you must contact your
claim agent not later than two weeks of this
notification. After this date, all funds will
be returned as unclaimed.
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: PG3-B20
BATCH NUMBER: GBH-2
Congratulations once again from all our
staff and thank you for being part of our
promotions program.
Sincerely,
LOTTERY COORDINATOR
PROTEA GAMES SOUTH AFRICA
65 Everson Street, Linden - 2104,
Johannesburg, South Africa
Note:
You are adviced in your own interest to keep
information about this lottery from the
public to aviod double claims.Please
contact your claims agent
(EMAIL: tonyfashmol@andinia.zzn.com)
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