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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: "MRS.WILLIAMS RONARLD" <delottonl@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:01:44 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!
DE LOTTO NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOGRAMS.
ANTARRESLAAN 15, 2132
HOOFDDORP,THE NETHERLANDS.
REF.NUMBER: LIJ/365549/23
BATCH NO:3321/MN
LOTTERY AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of De Lotto
Netherlands International Lottery 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. Your email address was attached to ticket number 787-8766532210, drew
the lucky numbers 5-33-12-06-78-04,batch number 3321/MN and consequently won the lottery in
category A. You have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of 450,000.00 Euro (Four
Hundred and fifty Thousand Euro) in credited to file lottery Ref number LIJ/365549/23. This is from total
prize money of 20,000,000.00 Euro shared among the international winners in categories C with serial
number:KD/PBG/33-A5567/LP.All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
form 25,000 company email addresses and 70,000,000 individual email addresses from Australia,Africa,
New zealand,Europe, SOUTH & North America and Asia as part of International Promotions Program,
which is conducted annually.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now in the custody of a financial company insured in your File Reference number. Due to
mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you keep this lottery winning strictly from public
notice until your Claims has been process and your winning is remitted to you.This is part of our security
policy to avoid double claims or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. This lottery program
was promoted by our group of philanthropist headed by the netherlands government. We hope with a
part of your prize, you will participate in our next stakes 8,000,000.00 Euro International Lottery.
To file for your claim, please contact our financial agent:
MR THOMPSON RICHARDS.
VIRTUAL FINANCE BV
VAARTWEG 163B 1217SP, HILVERSUM,NETHERLANDS
Tel:+31-633-826-117
Email:claimsagenthomp@netscape.net
Fax:+ 31-84-755-7646
Remember that all winning prize must be claimed not later than 25TH OCTOBER,2005. After this date, All
lottery winning funds that are not claimed will be returned as unclaimed.
Note: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to always quote your
reference and batch numbers in every correspondences with your financial/claims agent. Furthermore,
should there be any change of address, do inform your financial/claim agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for being part of our promotion.
Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
Yours sincerely,
MRS.WILLIAMS RONARLD.
(GAMES/LOTTERY COORDINATOR)
De Lotto Netherlands International
www.lotto.nl
NB.
Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.
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