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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: donald_mark@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:55:29 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONGRATULATIONS=21?=
ATTENTION:Sir/Ma
RE/ AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 22nd October,2004
of winners of the GRANDPREMIUM PROMOLOTTERY,THE NETHERLANDS/INTERNATIONAL,
PROGRAMS held 17th October, 2004.Your winning email address,is attached
to ticket number 023-0148-790-459,with serial number 5073-11 drew the lucky
numbers 43-21-54-37-10-43,and consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$3,000.000.00
in cash credited to file REF NO.AMXXL/25041238013/03. This is from total
prize money of US$51,000,000.00 shared among the seventeen international
winners in this category.All participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from a collation of email addreses belonging to all
frequent internent users from all over the world from Australia, New Zealand,
America,
Europe, North America and Asia as part of International Promotions Program,
which is conducted bia-annually.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your funds is now deposited with our corresponding bank,and would be transferd
to you as soon as i hear from you.
Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award
strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your
money remitted to your designated account or send to me your prefarence
as regards your desired method of transfer of your funds to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous
acts by participantsof this program. We hope with a part of you prize, you
will participate in our end of year high stakes US$1.3billion International
Lottery.
To begin your claim, please contact your claims agent VIA EMAIL; MR JONES
GRAY,
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER, Herbarium Heidelberglaan 2 ,AMSTERDAM with the
above informations which should include your FULL NAMES, AGE, SEX,MARITAL
STATUS,NATIONALITY,CONTACT POSTAL ADDRESS,
TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER, via this email address(jonesgray@mail2world.com)
For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account
of your choice.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 5th November,2004.
After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed, and returned back
to the NETHERLAND GOVERNEMNT.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember
to quote your reference and batch numbers in everyone of your correspondences
with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of youremail address,
do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of
our promotions program.
Sincerely,
DR DONALD MARK
LLB(TORONTO) LLM(CAMBRIDGE)
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, GRANDPREMIUM PROMO LOTTERY,THE
NETHERLANDS.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of
any of our winners will result to disqualification.
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