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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: wrightwrites@handbag.com
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:25:03 +0200
Subject: ACCEPT MY CONGRATULATIONS == YOU WON
LUCKY DAY
118 Marcopolostraat, 1053 N- Ams,
The Netherlands.
Tel/Fax: +31-84-754-7028
www.luckyday.nl
From:The Director, International
Promotion/Prize Award Dept.
Sir/Madam,
RE: WINNING NOTIFICATION.
We are pleased to inform you of the release today the 1st of September, 2005
of the Lucky Day Lottery held on the 31st of August, 2005. Your email address
attached to ticket number KD613310, which drew lucky numbers 5-1-17-31-60
has won the lottery in the first category. You have therefore, won Two Million
United States Dollars (US$2M) in cash credited to file Ref.No CR/0237821020NL
and BATCH No:AK-1433.
This US$2,000,000.00 is from a total cash pool of US$20Million shared among
ten lucky winners in this category all over the world. We ask that you keep
this winning private from public notice until your claim has been processed
and your money remitted to your designated account.This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claim, disclaimer and unwarranted abuse of this
programme by participants. Early January this year, there was an incident
of a disclaimer to the lump sum lottery winning prize of US$162M in USA.
This is as a result of unnecessary publicity given to the winning prize by
the winner. The disclaimer later apologised publicly (our source: CNN). We
do not want to experience this ugly situation.
The lottery programme is co- sponsored by a major software provider. It is
an encouragement to Internet users and serves as a promotional activity for
the sponsors. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from only Microsoft users from over 20,000 company and 1,000,000 individual
email addresses all over the world.This lottery programme takes place once
in a year.
For the processing of your claim, please contact our fiducial agent, Mr.
Steve Olea at: (writetoagent@netscape.net) or through Fax number +31-84-754-7144.
To avoid delays and complications in processing your winning prize, you are
advised to include your Lucky Number, Batch Number, Age, Occupation, Address,
Telephone and Fax numbers when contacting your agent. Furthermore, should
there be any change of address during the time of claiming your winning prize,
do inform your agent as soon as possible.
Accept our congratulations and thank you for being part of our promotional
programme.
Note:
1). Anybody under the age of 18 years is automatically disqualified.
2). All winning prizes must be claimed not later than 28th September, 2005.
At the expiration of this date, all unclaimed prizes will be returned back
to the pool as unclaimed.
Regards,
Mr. Benson Wright (The Director Int'l Promotion/Prize Award Dept).
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