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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: "Textile Co" <claim669@sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:59:10 +0000
Subject: Award Winner
Luckyday Loterij Netherlands
Laan van Hoornwijck 55,
2289 DG Rijswijk, The Netherlands.Attention: Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the annual draw of 25-02-2006, of our International email Lottery Programs. The Luckyday lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a winner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached Ref Number: LU/00032/91/61/006/NL; Batch Number: 02/A21/32-57 and Ticket Number: 11/ 14/27/30/31, with serial number 1102259035 drew the lucky numbers 04-14-19-34-44. You are therefore to receive a cash prize of $1,500,000.00. (One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the total payout, This is from the total prize money of 18,900,000.00 US Dollars (Eighteen Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars) shared among the international winners in our 1st - 4th categories. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our Certified and Accredited claims processing officers for category "A" winners, you are advice to provide him with the following information:-
Your Names:.........................................................................
Telephone/Fax number:..................................................
Nationality:....................................................................
Age:..............................................................................Contact claims processing office through address below:-
Luckyday Notary Office:
Email:fsstrust@netscape.net
Tel. No: +31-64-235-9616
Fax. No: +31-84-755-6915NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 30th March 2006, thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.Yours Faithfully,Mrs. Rita van Brook.
Promotion Manager.
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