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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: prescott2004 <prescott2004@muchomail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:06:00 +0100
Subject: PROTEA GAMES \'\' WINNER\'\'


FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT


DEAR SIR/MADAM,

RESULTS FOR THIRD CATEGORY DRAWS
PROTEA GAMES SOUTH AFRICA wishes to inform you of the
results of It'S Promotional draws held on the 1ST MAY
2004. We are happy to officially inform you that you
have emerged a winner under our Third Category Draws,
which is part of our promotional draws. Participants
were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 40,000 names/email addresses of individuals and
companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,
Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part
of our International Promotions Program.

You/Your company, attached to ticket number 01-87-436,
with serial number 61-217 drew the lucky numbers 08,
28, 29, 36, 44, 47 (31), and consequently won in the
Third Category.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of
US$2,500,000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) in cash, which is the winning
payout for Third Category winners. This is from the
total prize money of US$5,000,000.00 shared between 2
international winners in the Third category.


CONGRATULATIONS!


Your fund is now deposited with INTERSCOPE FINANCE
GROUP insured in your name. In your best interest and
also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind,
we request that you keep the entire details of your
award strictly from public notice until the process of
transferring your claims has been completed, and your
funds remitted to your account. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants of
this program.

We also wish to bring to your notice our mid year
(2004) high stakes where you stand a chance of winning
up to US$10.5 Million, we hope that with a part of
your prize you will participate.

Please contact your claims agent immediately, to begin
your claims process;

MR. PAUL PRESCOTT,
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER,
INTERSCOPE FINANCE GROUP.
TEL/FAX: +27 828675346
EMAIL: p_prescott2@interscopefinancegroup.net



For due processing and remittance of your prize money
to a designated account of your choice.

Remember, you must contact your claim agent not later
than 24TH MAY 2004. After this date, all funds will be
returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, Find
below your reference and Batch numbers, remember to
quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PG3-B2
BATCH NUMBER: GBH-2


Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.


Sincerely,

LOTTERY COORDINATOR
PROTEA GAMES SOUTH AFRICA
65 Everson Street,
Linden - 2104,
Johannesburg,
South Africa.
TEL/FAX: +27 823622669


N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification. Please do not
reply to this mail. Contact your claims agent.(TERMS
AND CONDITIONS APPLY)



___________________________________________________________________________
Mail sent from WebMail service at www.mgxtreme.co.uk



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