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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: interlottobv@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:52:01 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?SCIENTIFIC=20GAME=20PROMO=20LOTTERY?=
INTERNATIONAL LOTTO BV
LONDON-UK
RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION / PROCESSMENT ADVICE:
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 18TH Dec., 2004
of winners of the SCIENTIFIC GAME PROMO LOTTERY; THE UNITED KINGDOMS/INTERNATIONAL,PROGRAMS
held on 14TH DEC, 2004. Your email address attached to ticket number 023-56678230954,
with serial number 5073-11 drew the lucky numbers 7-14-21-42-49-59,batch
number 6858/NL and consequently won the lottery in the 1st category. You
have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of $1,500.000.00 (ONE
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS) is credited to file
LOTTERY REF NO. SGIL/763276/03. This is from total prize money of $ 20,000,000.00
shared among the seventeen international winners in 1st-3rd categories.All
participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn form 25,000
company email addresses and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from Australia,
New Zealand, America,Europe, North America and Asia as part of International
Promotions Program,which is conducted annually.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now in custody of a financial Security company insured in your
FILE REFERENCE. 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 account.This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of
this program. This lottery program was promoted by our group of philanthropist
headed by the netherland government. We hope with a part of you prize, you
will participate in our end of year high stakes $10,000,000 million International
Lottery.
To begin your claim, please contact your file/claim officer:
Best Regards
Rose WILLIAMS (Mrs.)
OR OUR FIDUCIAL AGENT, MR MICHAEL BROWN ONEMAIL[mbrown01@jmail.co.za] Please
be aware that your Paying Authority will Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory
Report, Verifications and validation provided by our processing Agent; that
would be designated to your file. For due processment and remittance of
your winning prize to your designated account of your choice.Remember,all
prize money must be claimed not later than 30th Jan, 2005.After this date,
all funds will be returned as unclaimed.NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary
delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch
numbers in every one of your correspondences
with your agent.Furthermore, should there be any change of your address,
do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.Congratulations once again
from our team of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 17 is AUTOMATICALY DISQUALIFIED.
Sincerely,
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