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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: managerforeign <managerforeign@mail2world.com> (may be fake)
Date: 8 Jun 2004 07:50:22 -0000
Subject: Congratulations!!!


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


SIR/MADAM,

RESULTS FOR THIRD CATEGORY DRAWS

PROTEA GAMES SOUTH AFRICA wishes to inform you of the
results of her Promotional draws held on the 5th of June, 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 06, 10, 17, 21, 37, 38, (19) 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$12,500,000.00 shared between 5 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 end of 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_prescott7@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 two weeks of receipt of this mail. After then, 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-B7
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)


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