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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: "OVESREAS LOTTERY" <admin@claimagentmail.net>
Reply-To: overseaslottoes@yahoo.es
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:13:54 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS
--INTERNATIONAL SPAIN. OFFICE: C/ LECEAGA, 7 -2 48002 BILBOA SPAIN. *********************** REF NUMBER;OSL/653/029/05 BATCH NUMBER;AT-040-SB06-05 CONGRATULATIONS Dear Winner, We are pleased to inform you, that as a result of our recent lottery draws held on 23th Nov 2005.Your email address attached to ticket number 27522465896-532 with serial number 652-662 drew lucky number 7-14-18-23-31-45 which consequently won 2nd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 1,000,000(EUROS)(ONE MILLION EUROS) Note: ALL participants in this lottery program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engines and web sites. This promotional program takes place every year,and is promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities like the sultan of brunei, Bill Gates Of Microsoft inc, Multi Choice and other corperate organisations. This is to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. For security purpose and clarity, we advise that you keep your winning informations confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse of this programe by some particitants. We look forward to your active participant in our next year US$50 Million slot. You are requested to contact our clearance officer below to assist you with your winning and subsequent payments. All winning must be claim not later than one month after the date of this notice. Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delay and complications remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of addresses do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional program. ********************************************************* NOTE; YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE BELOW 25 YEARS OF AGE. ********************************************************* Sincerely yours, Mrs. S. Christiana ****************************************** NB:(LOTTERY COORDINATOR) Clearance Officer-Details below Name :Mr Wast Raul Email.overseaslottoes@yahoo.es
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