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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: "southafrica lottery" <southafrica-2010lotteryaward4@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:25:54 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!
FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
SHAWSTAKERS LOTTERY, SOUTH AFRICA.
Atn,
We are pleased to inform you of our announcement today, 11th march, 2006 of
winners in the SHAWSTAKERS LOTTERY Promotional draw held on the 10th
Fabruary 2006.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America,
Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our
electronic business Promotions Program.
You qualified for the draw as a result of you visiting various e-business
website we are running on the Internet.
A ticket number 100-309-7482,with serial number 111410-887 was attached to
your entry which drew the lucky numbers 1 10 29 374549 and consequently won
in the second category.You are therefore awarded a cash prize of
US$900,000.00, which is the winning payout for Second
category winners.This is from the total prize money of US$13,650,000.00
shared among several
international/local winners in the Second category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
You are to file in your claim to the director of claims department with the
information below to arrange for your payout, Mr.Jackson Kuma, his email
address:jacksonkumaz@yahoo.ca ,
Ensure that you contact the claim department not later than 21 days from the
day you receive this notification message.
Thank's.
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