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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: Yahoo Award Promotonal Draws <awarddraws20@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: yahooclaimscentre@i12.com
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:17:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: WINNING PRIZE AND CLAIMS INFO.
YAHOO WINDOW LIVE MAIL BETA!
Yahoo Award Winning Notification Center.
Manchester United Kingdom.
Dear Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of Yahoo! great reality promotional program held on 24th April, 2008 here in Manchester United Kingdom.
Among the (Five Hundred Thousand) email addresses that was extracted randomly from yahoo subscribers active online, hotmail and also emails from many more other email providers in the world, "congratulations!" your email address tagged with ticket number: MFI/0689110/LND and Reference number: GBP571813YUK was among the Fifteen (15) lucky emails that have been selected to benefit from this program. Your email luckily won you the sum of USD$3.5 Million Dollars in the 3rd category.
WINNING PRIZE AND CLAIMS INFO
You are hereby approved to claim the sum of USD$3.5 Million United States Dollars by contacting immediately your claims agent with below info, and payments will be made to every winner according to his or her residential locations.
To file for your claims, you are hereby advised to immediately contact the 3rd category Agent Mr. Morgan Hilton on:-
Email: claims145@yahoo.co.uk {or} yahooclaimscentre@i12.com
Tel: +44-70457-84022
Contact him with the following information below as to facilitate the release of your won prize money to you within 4 working days:-
1. Your full Names:..................
2. Address:..........................
3. Phone numbers:....................
4. Age:........& Sex:................
5. Occupation:.......................
6. Nationality:......................
7. You are to quote your ticket number and reference number to him for verification of your winning.
Claims must be filed by you before the deadline date to avoid forfeiture as any prize not claimed after the deadline will be forfeited.
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, CONTACT YOUR AGENT FOR YOUR CLAIMS!
Congratulations once again from the entire staff of Yahoo!Organization.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Mrs. Margaret Harrison.
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