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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: "Alexander Freeman" <premierdirector@msn.com>
Reply-To: claimsagent3@netscape.net
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:05:23 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION
MEMO FROM: THE PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENTPREMIER LOTTERY Congratulations Category a Prize winner! You have been selected as one of two winners of the PREMIER LOTTERY, computer ballot draws and thus will be a privileged recipient of the grand draw prize of £ 6,500,000 (Six million five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds only). Winning File Reference number for your prize is PLUK/2030/0181/08; ticket number 101-OIO-77/A. We in the PREMIER LOTTERY,is by this program, launching our model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of the evergrowing number of participants in our various lottery programs. Withfunds accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to all Winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in record time. After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database of 300,000 emails and zoning all participants by their respective continents from across the globe, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the Grand Draw prize. To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings, the transfer of your prize is to be handled by your Claims Director. You are to contact our agent by email and/or fax within a week of receiving this notice. Please find full contact details below: MR. Felix Calton, FINANCIAL DIRECTOR, LINKTRUST FINANCE LTD. EMAIL:claimsagent04@netscape.com TEL: +44 703 184 5857 TEL: +44 703 193 1612 Also find all other relevant winning lottery information below: Draw Serial No: 55/849177 Batch No:01-A223 Zonal Draw No: A1-101 Grand Draw No: 56748 You are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery information and numbers from the public in line with our company security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous individuals. Please direct all further correspondence and queries to your respective category Prize Transfer handlers. Congratulations once again from the PREMIER LOTTERY Family. Sincerely, Alexander Freeman, THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR, PREMIERLOTTERY, 12 BRIDGE STREET, STAINES MIDDLESEX TW18 4TP UK, UNITEDKINGDOM. TEL/FAX: 44 70928998613
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