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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: "Davis Nwaka" <davisnwaka4@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: harrisbilly@yyhmail.com
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:33:31 +0000
Subject: Congratulations you have won.
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
JURIST LOTTERY PROMOTIONS, UK.
Dear Winner,
AWARD NOTIFICATION/FINAL PAYMENT NOTICE.
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today,
29th August, 2006, of Winners of the JURIST PROMO LOTTERY,
UNITED KINGDOM,draws held on 27th August, 2006.
Your email address attached to ticket number
023-0148-790-459, with serial number 8973-20 drew the
lucky numbers 09-44-44-76-27-11, and consequently won the
lottery in the 3rd category.
You have therefore been approved for lump sum pay out of
(£1.500.000.00) One Million, five hundred thousand
British Pounds in cash credited to file REF
No.041238013011JLP. This is from total prize Money Of
(£25.500.000.00) Twenty-Five Million, five hundred
thousand British Pounds shared among the seventeen
International winners in this category.
All participants were selected through a computer Ballot
System drawn from 25,000 email addresses from Australia,
New Zealand, America, Europe, North America and Asia as
Part of International Promotions Program, which is
Conducted Annually.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming by participants of this program. We hope with a
part of your prize, you will participate in our end of
year high stakes £500 Million International Lottery.
To begin your claim, please contact ( and quote your
Reference and batch numbers) our
Director,Claims/Remittance Department:
Mr. Harris Billy.Email:harrisbilly@yyhmail.com
Congratulations !
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Davis Nwaka.
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