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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: "Lynn D. Eccles" <lynndeccles@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 16:12:46 +0200
Subject: Congratulations Today!!!
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS. WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER www.luckyday.nl <http://www.luckyday.nl> Dear Winner, RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE, NL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING. We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of LUCKY DAY LOTTERY Netherlands programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the 1st category with the following: Ref Number: PC 390 ES 214 Batch Number: 26371545-LNI/2005 Ticket Number: PCP 002 871 You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of of 615,810.00 € ( SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TEN EUROS ONLY)
E, Credited to file Ref Number: PC 390 ES 214. This is from total prize of 10,468,770 € (TEN MILLION FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EUROS ONLY) in 1st category shared among the seventeen international winners in this category, each from the total payout Congratulation!! Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting to your agent's requirements, statutory obligations,verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claim of your prize winning you are advised to solicitute for your payment in our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winner's, the Spanish office in Barcelona Spaiñ, contact with the information below: Liberty Seguros & Financiario. Mr Javier Lopez ( C.E.O). Tel Nº: +34- 653-271223. Fax Nº: +34- 653-330951. LUCKY DAY LOTTERY, 107 Vanderloop 1902AB ,Amsterdam,The Netherlan!
ds. NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 20 days.
After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained). Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Congratulations!!! Yours faithfully, Mrs. Lynn Denise Eccles. lynndeccles@excite.com <mailto:lynndeccles@excite.com> Games/Lottery Coordinator. LUCKY DAY LOTTERY / www.luckyday.nl The LUCKY DAY Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.The LUCKYDAY LOTTERY internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.We are proud !
to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.
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