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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: "Debbie Molina" <debbie@debbiemolina.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:11:50 +0000
Subject: you are OUR LUCKY WINNER!!!
DE NATIONAL LOTTERY
PO BOX 1010
LIVERPOOL
L70 1NL
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF NO:BBA444125680216 AND BATCH NO: 24/000/BLS
ATTENTION: Sir/Madam,
RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today of winners of DE
NATIONAL LOTTO PROGRAMS held on the 19TH, JULY, 2005 as part of our SECOND
QUARTER of the year bonanza.
You or your company, attached to ticket number 034-1416-4612-750,with serial
number 6521-11drew the lucky numbers 47-44-20-24-39-43, and consequently won
the lottery in category C.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$9,000,000(Nine
million united states dollars) in cash credited to file REF
NO:BBA444125680216
This is from total prize money of US$90,000,000.00 shared among 10 winners
in this category. All participants were selected through a computer
balloting system drawn from 96,000 names from Middle East, Asia,Africa,
South America, Europe ,North America and Oceania as part our International
Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with BARCLAYS FINANCE SERVICE ,Due to the mix up
of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from
public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to
your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming
or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.
We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes US$1.3 billion International Lottery.
To begin your claim, please contact your claims agent;
MR. RAYMOND BERMAN
ACCOUNT DIRECTOR
BARCLAYS FINANCE SERVICE
TELEPHONE:+447040101817
FAX:+447092807619
EMAIL: raymondberman42@graffiti.net
raymondberman54@mail.com
for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice.
Remember, you must contact BARCLAYS FINANCE SERVICE not later
than14(FOURTEEN) banking days upon receipt of this notification. After this
date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. All correspondences to
MR.RAYMOND BERMAN, either by fax or email, should have this EMAIL sent along
with it and also, your FULL ADDRESS, YOUR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE and your
EMAIL ADDRESS to which this email is sent, should be clearly and BOLDLY
WRITTEN IN YOUR RESPONSE with your claims agent.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your
correspondences with BARCLAYS FINANCE SERVICE. Furthermore, should therebe
any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our
promotions program.
Sincerely,
Debbie Molina
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
DE NATIONAL LOTTERY,UK
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
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