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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: "Simon Croft" <simon_croft@eglworldworld.net>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 22:25:28 +0100
Subject: WINNER OF THE LOTTERY DRAWS (CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT)

FROM MR SIMON CROFT.
THE COORDINATOR, EGLOBAL LOTTERY UK.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
EGLOBAL LOTTERY, UK.

DEAR WINNER,

SECOND CATEGORY HIGH STAKES DRAW

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the Results of the Stakes
Draws of EGLOBAL LOTTERY UNITED KINGDOM. We are happy to inform you that you
have emerged a winner under the Second Category High Stakes Draw,Which is
part of our promotional draws. The draws were held on 30th APRIL,2005 and
result 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 66-1-452, with serial number
52-27 drew the winning numbers 09 15 18 56 31 60 (25) and consequently won
in The Second Category.You have therefore been awarded a lump sum payout of
£2,500,000:00M GBP (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds), which is the
winning payout for Second Category Winners. This is from the total prize
money of £15,000,000:00 shared between six (6) winners in the B Category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your fund has been long deposited with our International Funds Transfer
agents ACE FINANCE LTDand 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/
non-participants of this program.

We also wish to bring to your notice our mid-year 2005 Premium Stakes Draw
where you stand a chance of Winning up to £50 M 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 designated bank account of your choice;

MR. BRIAN HAYS
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER
ACE FINANCE LIMITED
642 HIGH ROAD,
GREATER LONDON E113AA, UK
FAX:+442076812904
Fax:+447005804283
Tel:+447040119106
MOBILE: +8821646655614
Email:brian_hays@accountant.com

You are advised to contact your claims agent 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: EGLUK/05/8256/83219/QE321
BATCH NUMBER: EG5/A005-19

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

Sincerely,

MR SIMON CROFT.
THE COORDINATOR,
EGLOBAL LOTTERY UK.
13 GORDON ROAD TUDOR
SQUARE NG25LL LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM.
TEL: +44 70-4011-8521
Fax: +44 70-0580-2154
Fax: +44 70-0580-4269
Email:simoncroft@eglworldworld.net

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 immediately.(TERMS AND CONDITION APPLYS).

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