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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: zenexlottery@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:53:48 +0200
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING
NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING
We are pleased to inform you from ZENEX LOTTERY. of the Lottery Held
on 13th of February 2005, which your e mail address happens to, be One
of our category (A) winner, from the announcement today 17th March,2005
as one of our New Year lucky winners of the ZENEX LOTTERY draws.
Participants in the draws were selected through a computer ballot
System drawn from 2,500,000 e-mail addresses of individuals and Companies
from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East and
New Zealand as part of our electronic business Promotions Program.
You are qualified for the draw as a result of you visiting various
websites we are running the Electronic-business promotions for
You/Your Company e-mail address, attached with REFERENCE NUMBER: ZAR
23457677/2005 BATCH NUMBER: 79-124-WAN with serial number 818-09 drew the
lucky
numbers 7-8-40-15-3-49 and consequently won our New Year (2005)
lottery You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
US$2,200,000.00 in cash, this is the winning payout for First category
Winners. This is from the total prize money of US$15.5 Million shared
among the winners
in the First category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents. (Greenland
Finance Limited) as we have notified them. Due to the mix-up that may
arise from emails of winners and numbers we ask that you keep this award
strictly
from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money
remitted to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.
To begin your claim, please contact our paying agent/company who also
Will be your claims agent
PHILLIP MOHALE
CLAIMS DEPARTMENT
GREENLAND FINANCE LIMITED.
MELVILLE,
SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: +27-72 013 3438
FAX: +27-72 013 3439
EMAIL:phillipmohale@yahoo.com
For due processing and remittance of your prize money, you are to
contact your claims agent not later than two weeks after notification.
After this date all funds will be returned as unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers provided below in
every one of your correspondences with your claims agent. REFERENCE NUMBER:
ZAR 23457677/2005 BATCH NUMBER: 79-124-WAN SERIAL NUMBER: 818-09 Also to
begin your Claim
send to your claims agent the Following information.
1) BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS
2) FULL NAMES
3) MAILING ADDRESS
4) PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
5) AMOUNT WON.
6) AGE
Congratulations once again from all our staff.
Sincerely,
THE AWARDS MANAGER,
ZENEX LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA.
9 CHURCH STREET
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
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
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