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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: "robert monica" <monicarobert10@mailbox.hu>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 05:52:11 +0100
Subject: winning notice
POWER BALL INTERNATIONAL
BONUS PROMOTION.
Home Office
Direct Communications Unit
2 Marsham Street USSW1P 4DF
www.powerball.com
WINNING
NOTICE
Dear Winner,
This is to notify you that your e-mail address was tagged to ticket number:
B 9564- 7560 -4545 -110 with serial number
046560 drew the winning numbers,5 27 30 32 46 49 Bonus 9 in our weekly
National Lotto 6/49 lottery draws held on friday
23TH May , 2008 Lotto 6/49 United Kingdom. All participants were selected
randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws
System and extracted from over 10, 000, 00.this lottery is our monthly
promotion. You need not to buy a ticket before you
Win,This program is a free business promotion we use to encourage our
customer to play our lottery.
You have been approved to claim a total sum of Nine Hundred and fifty
Thousand United States Dollars ($550,000usd) in
cash credited Commercial bank in African file eAAL/9080118308/04. Please
note that your lucky winning numbers fall in our
West African region, in view of contact our Nigeria Payment Office
Immediately release of your prize to you.
Contact information is as follow: - reply to our Nigeria payment office
Name: Mr.Ahamefula martins
EMAIL;aham_martins@yahoo.co.uk <EMAIL%3Baham_martins@yahoo.co.uk>
Tel:2348064024724
Simply write back his office with the following information listed below to
enable him effect the release of your prize.
(1)WINNING NO:
(2)YOUR FULL NAME:
(3)FULL RESIDENTIAL CONTACT:
(4)TEL NUMBERS
(5)OFFICIAL AGE:
(6)NATIONALITY:/CONTACT ADDRESS
(7)SECRET ZONAL CODE NUMBER: 406
YOU CAN READ ABOUT OUR LUCKY WINNERS IN THE BELOW LINK
http://powerball.com/powerball/pb_stories.asp)
Sincerely yours,
Monica Robert (The prize announcer representing power ball International
Bonus Promotion)
Copyright(c) Multi-State Lottery Association. All Rights Reserved.
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