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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: "inter_lotterywinnr1@yahoo.com" <inter_lotterywinnr1@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:10:22 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!
SOUTH AFRICAN
WORLD CUP 2010
FREE LOTTERY DRAW
HEADQUARTERS.
ZURICH SWITZERLAND.
PO Box 1010
Dear winner,
We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the FreeLotto draw held on the
9th of AJuly. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000
international emails.. World cup Draw. Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total
payout of USD$ 2,000,000,00 (TWO MILLION DOLLARS) only. Your email address emerged along side 9
others as a category to the winners in this year's Annual Lottery Program which will be helding
once every year till the 2010 finals in South Africa.
The world cup lottery 2010 is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,Coca
Cola,Nokia,MTN,the Intel Group, Toyota ,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh .And mostly by the
South African Government.The world cup free lottery draw is held once a year.And is so organized
to encourage the use of internet and computers.And also to advertise the South Africa 2010 World
Cup world wide.We are proud to say that over US $ 20 Million are won annually in more than 150
countries world wide.
World cup 2010 south africa . Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out
of usd$2,000,000.00 (two million dollars) only.The following particulars are attached to your
lotto payment order:
(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622CH
(iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/CH
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your
claim your prize money.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned.
To file your claim,please contact your claim agent:
CONTACT: DR FRANK DUBE
E-MAIL:agent_forclaimza@yahoo.com
TELE:+27-73-398-6570
South African President
Sincerely,
Rev. John Williams
Promotions Manager
World cup 2010
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