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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: wills2000@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:49:49 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GROUP=20INTERNATIONAL=20LOTTERY=20?=

GROUP INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Nathan Rd. Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, HongKong



CHARITY HOMES ORGANIZATION PROMOTION / PRIZE REWARD
WINNING BATCH # CA/97531/03. REF. # MD/00816/10/03

Sir,

This is to inform you of the release of the GROUP INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
held on December. 2nd, 2004, on behalf of the Charity Home Organization
World Promotional exercise from donors of various countries in the world.


Due to the mixed up of numbers and addresses from our head office in Oxford
City - UK, the results were delayed and released today, the 6 of Decenber
2004.

Your name and email address felt into the winning ballot of the donors,
as selected in your districtorial centre. Your name is attached to ticket
number 047-31490-960 with serial number 9640/82 drew lucky number 09-18-33-49-14-95
which consequently won the lottery category B of 816 payout roll to a tune
of One Million, Two Hundred and Eighty Thousand US dollars ($1,280,000.00)
credited to payment file Ref. # CA/08642421149/05 from a total cash prize
of Twelve Million Eight Hundred and Thousand Point Zero Zero US dollars
shared among the ten (10) international winners in this category. CONGRATULATIONS!

Due to the mixed up information, as well as avoiding double claiming and
unwarranted advantage of this program, as happened in the past, you are
strictly warned to keep your winning information away from public notice
or any third party until your claim is perfectly executed. All participants
were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 donors
in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, North and South America.


To begin your claim, please forward your account detail to your allocated
paying agency in United Kingdom, FAST GLOBAL FINANCE (Attn: Mr Anthony Philips)
antphilips2004@yahoo.com for the payment processing of your allocation.

All claims are expected to be made not later than Decenber 15, 2004. Be
also informed that 10% of your reward will be mapped out for the Charity
Home Organization at the end of your claim. During your claim inquiry, please
quote your Batch and Reference numbers to your allocated agency to avoid
complication.Mind you that , you will bear the processing fees for ur claims.

Finally, Original copy of your prize-winning certificate will be sent to
you after claim declaration. Congratulations once again from all members
of our staffs, as well as the entire staff of Charity Home Organization
and thank you for being part of this program. We wish you continued fortune.

Sincerely,

Charles Wills

Vice president.
antphilips2004@yahoo.com






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