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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: fra.james@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:42:01 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?LUCKY=20WINNER?=
Western Canada Lottery Corporation
Corporate Communications
6910-50th Avenue
Postal Bag 649
Stettler, AB T0C 2L0
www.lottolore.com
Winning Notification
Dear lucky winner,
We happily announce to you the result of the National Lotto 6/49 lottery
draws held on sat
August 4th, 2007 , in Essex United Kingdom and Ontario , Canada . All participants
were
selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system
and extracted from
over 10,000,00 companies and personal e-mail addresses. Your e-mail address
attached to
ticket number: B9564 7560 4545 100 with serial number 046560 drew the winning
numbers
3-19-20-23-35-38 a Bonus 48 You have therefore been approved to claim a
total sum of
US$2,000,000.00 in cash credited to file EAAL/9080118308/04.
Please note that your lucky winning numbers fall within our African booklet
representative
office in Ghana as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your
US$2,000,000.00
would be released to you by a Bank in Africa .
Our African agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your
funds as soon as you contact their office. To file for your claim, please
contact our
corresponding agent in Africa immediately you read this message for quick
and urgent release
of your fund, contact information is as follow: -
Name: Mr. John Kwaku
Email:johnkwakuprivatemail@yahoo.com
Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program to
all that have
successfully won this competition and thank you for being part of our promotional
lottery
program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Frank James
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