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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <bargeorgeb@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 03:55:29 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON THE YAHOO SEASONAL PROMO
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! YAHOO
LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL
This is to inform you that you have won a
prize
money of TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($200,000.00)
for the YEAR 2008 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO
LOTTERY INC for the introduction of the new YAHOO BETA
MAIL which all YAHOO
users are required to switch onto.
YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arrange and
gather all the e-mail
addresses of the people that are active online, among the
millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail, and
others we only select FIVE (5) candidates per annually as our winners through
Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we
congratulate you for being one of the people
selected.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND
CLAIM
We are sorry that your Payment
Approval File was sent to
AFRICAN due to we have 3 lucky winners in AFRICAN so that you can be cleared and
paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our U.K Location Claim Agent on or
before your date of Claim.
Yahoo
Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of Draw
Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.
Note: Any prize not claimed within this
period (14 days) will be forfeited.
These are your
identification numbers:
IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:
Batch
number.....................YBM-EBS-390AF
Reff
number........................YBM-EBS-719AF
Winning
number...............YBM-EBS-798AF
To claim your prize money,you
are required to contact BARR GEORGE BROWN with your Batch
number,Reff number,Winning number through his email below.
BARRISTER GEORGE BROWN AT HIS
E-MAIL: bargeorgeb@hotmail.com
CONTACT PHONE:
+447045774993
You are therefore advised to
send the following information to him to facilitate them and process the
transfer of your fund with the appointed paying bank.
Send your Identification
Numbers/Your Personal Information to him immediately:
Personal
Information
1. Full
name..................
2. Country....................
3. Contact Address...........
4. Telephone Number.........
5.
Marital Status..............
6. Occupation..................
7.
Age.........................
8.
Sex.........................
Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,
We
hope you're enjoying your new
Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next
step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!.
You select how to transfer the prize money
to you:
Cheque Delivery To Your
Address
Bank Account
Transfer
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