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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: 2010 world cup free lottery <freelott2010cup@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:00:33 +0000
Subject: WORLD CUP 2010 FREE LOTTERY NOTIFICATION.
WORLD CUP 2010 FREE LOTTERY,HEADQUARTER, UNITED KINGDOM.=====================Winning NO: XB3/701/LNRCBatch NO: 905534213/255Ref NO: 7458222754=====================
Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to announce your email address as one of the 200 luckywinners in the Free Lotto draw held on the 18/11/ 2007. All 200winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 100,000,000 {ONEHUNDRED MILLION} international emails addresses.Consequently, you have
Therefore been approved for a total payout of GBP £1,000,000.00 (ONEMILLION POUNDS) only. Your email address emerged along side with 199others as a category of winner in this year's Annual Draw.
The world cup lottery 2010 is proudly sponsored by the MicrosoftCorporation, Coca Cola, Nokia, MTN, the Intel Group, Toyota,Toshiba. Theworld cup free lottery draw is held once in every four years interval. Andis also organized to encourage the use of internet and computers.
We are proud to say that over GBP £25 Million Pounds are won annuallyin more than 150 countries world-wide.For security reasons, you areadvised to keep your winning information confidential until you claim yourprize money.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid doubleclaiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.
Fill the form below to enable us process you winning prize:
NAME..............................ADDRESS.....................................PHONE NO......................................OCCUPATION..................................AGE.....................................SEX.............................COUNTRY.........................SCANNED COPY OF IDENTITY PROOF.
CONTACT MR. THOMAS FREEMAN FOR CONFIRMATION!!!EMAIL: thomas_agents@yahoo.co.uk
Sincerely,
Mrs. Andrew HullPromotions Manager
Congratulations once again !!!
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