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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: "LOTTERY SWEEPSTAKES" <lotterysweepstakes@winnings.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: patrickharriss@diplomats.com
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:49:22 -0700
Subject: WINNER(CONGRATULATIONS)
FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Alliance Gaming Corporation Inc.
6601 S. Bermuda Road
Las Vegas, NV 89119 USA.
Dear Recipient,
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "B" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,
the results of the First Category draws of GOLDEN STRIKE LOTTERY. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the Second Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held
prior to your notification.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 2,500,000 names/email addresses of
individuals and companies from Africa, America,
Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.
You/Your company email id, attached to ticket number
6422-5-486, with serial number 59-18 drew the lucky
numbers 33-92-78-05 (18) and consequently won in the
Second Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out
of $5,500,000 USD (Five million, five hundred thousand
United States Dollars), which is the winning
payout for Category"B" winners. This is from the
total prize money of $11,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with our transfer agents
TRANS-GLOBAL SECURITY USA and 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
premium stakes draw where you stand a chance of
winning up to $100 million; we hope that with a part
of your prize you will participate in it.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice:
MR. PATRICK HARRISS,
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER,
TRANS-GLOBAL SECURITY USA.
Fax\Tel: 1-775-206-5827
EMAIL:lotterysweepstakes@winnings.com
You are advised to contact our agents by email
and/or fax within a week of receiving this notice. Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.
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: GLUK/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER: R5/A312-59
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Sincerely,
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
Alliance Gaming Corporation Inc.
6601 S. Bermuda Road
Las Vegas, NV 89119 USA
N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of
the winners will result to disqualification. Please do
not reply to this mail box. Contact your claims agent
immediately.
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