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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: "DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTERS" <info_pomoters01@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:52:14 +0000
Subject: Attention you just won !!!

FROM: DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTERS. WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER.
RE:AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION


Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of DE SAP
SOFT WARE PROMOTION Netherlands International programs. The online cyber
lotto draws was
conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual
and corporate bodies
picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No
tickets were sold.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of
two winners in the
category "A" with the following:

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Batch Number:26371545-LNI/2004
Ticket Number:54866235

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of
1,500.000.(ONE MILLION
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS ONLY) each from the total payout. Your prize
awards has been insured
with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our
requirements, tatutory
obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin
the claims processing
of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and
accredited claims agent for
category "A" winners with the informatiom below:

Mr. Robert Heinz
Financial Director, DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTION
Netherlands Company,De Amsterdamse
Poort Bijlmerplein
888 1102 MG Amsterdam
1000 BV Amsterdam
E-mail:claimsdirector01@netscape.net
Tel:+31-613-573-139
Fax:+31-847-499-708

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims
process,failing which would lead to disqualification and winnings
Forfeiture. Winners are
therefore advised to expedite their claims process.

(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full and
unconditional agreement to
and acceptance of our terms and conditions of claims to avoid any
discrepancy in the cause of
payment of your prize awards winning.

(c) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning details
very confidential, as
any discrepancies resulting from a breach of this confidentiality on the
part of the winners will
be covered solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of
secrecy taken on
employment.

(d) By this lottery prize awards winning, you acknowledge your acceptance to
be added to
ourlottery master player database.

(e) By this prize winning, you agree to receive periodic mailings which will
include, but are not
limited to; Newsletters, Invitations to Play, Announcements, Adverts and
Offers we feel would be
of interest to our master players, from all the sponsoring entities.

(f) By this winning, you understand that you reserve the discretion to be
removed from any such
mailing list which automatically disqualifies you from this and subsequent
lottery
entries.Removal instructions are on every mails.

(g) We hereby do solemnly pledge to maintain the privacy of our master
players/lucky winners
database and shall not make available for sale, rent, lease or the illegal
use of
informationabout our Players/winners.

Remember to quote your reference information in allcorrespondence.Anybody
under the age of 18
and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate in this
program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs.Mavis Cook
DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTION
Netherlands International programs
N.B:all response should be mail to:claimsdirector01@netscape.net



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