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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: Zeeman Lottery International <info@zeemanlotteryinternational.nl> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:47:55 -0500 (COT)
Subject: Congratulations



FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONal CO-ORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REFERENCE NUMBER: RTINT/3086/2508/04
BATCH NUMBER: R4/B549-24
RE: AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE.


Congratulations to you as we bring to your notification of the the results of the First Category draws of ZEEMAN LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. We are pleased to inform you that you have emerged a winner under this Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws was held on 10th
January 2005 and results are being officially announced today
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 50.000.00 companies and 60.000.000 individual email addresses from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotional Program. This promotional program takes place every year, and is promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities like the owner of one of the world largest computer company and other corporate organizations. This is to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.
You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 6422-5-486, with serial number 45-18 drew the lucky numbers 34-88-56-17 12 and consequently won in this Category. You have therefore been awarded a sum pay out of $550,000.00 USDollars (Five Hundred and fifty Thousand USDollars), which is the winning payout for this Category winners. This is from the total prize money of 10,000,000 USDollars shared among the winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS
Your fund is now deposited with our transfer agent and insured to the real value. 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 processing and transfer of your claims has been completed and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our company security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/non participants of this promotional program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our next year premium stakes draw where you stand a chance of winning up to 20 million USDollars; we hope that with a part of your lottery winning prize, you will participate.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and remittance of your lottery winning prize money to a designated account of your choice:

You are advised to contact our agents

Mr.Paul Clark
Tel:+31-616-248-320
Email:natwestfinsecnv@netscape.net

Remember that for the processing and remittance of your lottery winning , All winning prize must be claimed not later than 31th of January 2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned and will be included in the next stake
For easy reference and identification,Remember to quote your reference number and batch number in every of your correspondences with your claims agent.


NOTE:should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible

Congratulations once again from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program this year.


Yours Sincerely,

Mr.Mac Van Rjn
Lottery Co-Ordinator
ZEEMAN LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL,
KIKKENSTEIN 27,1104AA,
AMSTERDAM ZUIDOOST,
THE NETHERLANDS.


IMPORTANT NOTICE:Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification and if you are below 18 years of age, you are automatically disqualified.
Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your Claims agent immediately.






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