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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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From: yahooawards@mchsi.com
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 14:10:05 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION GET BACK TO US.
Yahoo Awards Center
124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB-UnitedKingdom.
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds (GBP750,000) for the month of May/June 2008 Prize promotion which is organized by YAHOO AWARDS & WINDOWS LIVE.
YAHOO collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE /CLAIMS
Winners shall be paid in accordance with their Settlement Centers.Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed not later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and returned to its source as unclaimed.
Stated below are your identification numbers:
BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: 2007234522
PIN: 1207
You are requested to contact our co-ordinator in Manchester and send your winning identification numbers to him:
Co-ordinator's Name: Rev. Niculai Antony
E-Mail: revniculaiantony_agt02@hotmail.com
Call:+44-7011141170
You are advised to send the following information to our co-ordinator to facilitate the release of of your fund to you.
Full name, Country, Contact Address,Telephone Number,fax Number,Marital Status, Occupation, Sex,Date of Birth/Age.
Yours in service,
Mrs. Grace Sanders
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