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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: "lotto" <lottoaward99@gmail.cn>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:40:20 +0800
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONL
FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT
Attn Lucky Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual
draw of our Lottery International Programs.
The online cyber 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.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as
awinner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached Ref
Number: PW 9590 ES 9414,Batch Number: 573881545-NL/2006 and Ticket Number:
PP3502 /8707-01 You are therefore to receive a cash prize of
$2,500,000.00.(TWO Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) from the total payout
CONGRATULATIONS!!!.
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
agent for category "A" winners with the information below:
*************************************
MR Pieter Henk.
E-mail:p_henk06@yahoo.de
Tel: +31644893668
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You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days,
there after 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.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and
thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Yours Faithfully,
Walter Jones.
»¶ÓʹÓà ISM Gmail
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