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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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From: "Nationwide Lottery" <nation00000006@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:44:58 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!
Mesenger Yahoo! Lottery Results You won $1,000,000.00 (1 Million Dollars) Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! WINNING NOTIFICATION!!! Yahoo! Mail announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo Lottery Draw for the year, 2006/2007. All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada , Australia , United States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay- out of 1,000,000.00 Dollars (ONE MILLION DOLLARS).
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our US representative office in Johannesburg South Africa , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of 1,000,000.00 Dollars will be released to you from this regional branch office in South Africa.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZEThese are your identification numbers.......................Batch number.....................LWH 12/25/0034Lotto number.......................LWH 09446Ticket Number...................LWH 025-11464992-750
Yahoo's Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:FIDUCIARY AGENT NAME: MR. ANTHONY MATHEWSTELEPHONE NUMBER: +27-72282-1166E-MAIL ADDRESS: thews@webmail.co.zaYou are to send the completed verification form below to the/our Agent in the Johannesburg South Africa whose email address is given above, so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!
1. FULL NAME:2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:3. PRESENT ADRESS:4. DATE OF BIRTH:5. OCCUPATION:6. TELEPHONE NUMBER:6. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY):7. MARITAL STATUS:8. TICKET NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER:9. DATE NOTIFIED:
10.AMOUNT WON:
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-selected winner or unofficial personnel.Yours Sincerely,Dr. WILLIAM GERRILOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.The Yahoo.com staff
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