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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: "lottery lottery" <lottery_3desk@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 18:47:05 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS
Euro Afro American Lottery promotion
SwitzerlandFrom the desk of: Mrs Rose Michael
Dear Sir\MadamCONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING:We happily announce to you the draw of South African
2010 World cup Bid lottery Award International
programs held in Zurich, Switzerland.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9665 75604546 199
with ! Serial number 97560 drew the winning:60/84/27/17/36,
which subsequently won you the lottery award in the 2nd category.
Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$2,000.000.00
(Two million United States Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9030108308/03 .
This is from a total cash prize of US $ 400,000,000.00 (Four Hundred million United States dollars) shared among the first 200 lucky
winners in this category world-wide.Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our lottery booklet representative office in
South Africa as indicate in the play coupon.In view of this, your US $2,000.000 ( Two Million UnitedStates Dollars )
would be released to through the assistance of our agent in South Africa immediately he
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contacted him.All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000,00 companies and individual emails address.The lottery programe took place to promote South Africa's 2010 world cup award.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims are processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit
to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.
Please you are advised to file for your claim
immediately through our agent Mr Louis S. Botha
immediately you received this message because you
stand a risk of loosing the prize if you fail to claim
within a month from the day you received this notification.
His e-mail address is:}
Yours sincerely,Mrs Rose Michael
(Zonal cordinator)
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