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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: excellottosa@mixmail.com
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:24:01 -0800
Subject: ===YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION===
FROM: THE DESK OF THE AWARDS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
EXCEL ELECTRONIC LOTTERY INC.
SOUTH AFRICA
Dear sir/madam,
Notification of your prize winning:
We are pleased to inform you from EXCEL ELECTRONIC
LOTTERY INC. of the announcement today Wednesday the 2nd, of February
2005 as one of the lucky winners of The EXCEL ELECTRONIC
LOTTERY INC.draws,held on Tuesday the 1st January,2005 as part of
Our e-business New Year bonanza/promotional excercise.
Participants in the draws were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 e-mail
addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,
Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New
Zealand as part of our electronic business Promotions
Program.You qualified for the draw as a result of you visiting
various websites we are running the Electronic-business promotions for.
You/Your Company e-mail address, attached with
REFERENCE NUMBER: SEL-PD23-711W-9 BATCH NUMBER:
79-124-WAN with serial number 215-18 drew the lucky numbers 12, 19, 27, 30,
34, 52, 89, and consequently won our New Year (2005) lottery draw.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay
out of US$1,200,000.00 in cash, which is the winning
payout for First category winners. This is from the total
prize money of US$8,400,000.00 shared among the seven winners in the
First category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your winnings is to be claimed from our paying
Agents. (Arcadia Finance Limited)As we have
deposited your prize with them. Due to the mixup that may arise from
emails of winners and numbers we ask that you keep this award strictly
from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money
remitted to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or unscrupulous acts by the public.
We hope with a part of your prize, you will
participate in our high stakes US$1.1 billion International Mid YearLottery.
To begin your claim,contact your claims agent/paying company.
MR.PETER MAKALI
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER
ARCADIA FINANCE LIMITED.
EMAIL:arcadiafin@netscape.net
PHONE:277 3659 7560
For due processing and remittance of your prize money,
you must contact your claim agent on or before the
12th Feb,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 provided below in every one of your
correspondences with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: SEL-PD23-711W-9
BATCH NUMBER: 79-124-WAN
Also to begin your Claim,send to your claims agent the
following information.
1) BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS
2) FULL NAMES
3) MAILING ADDRESS
4) PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
5) AGE
6) AMOUNT WON.
7)NATIONALITY
8) I.D OR DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER.
Congratulations once again from all our staff.
Sincerely,
Mrs.Celine Vandervalt
Awards Manager,
Excel Electronic Lottery Inc.
South Africa.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification.
Do not reply to this mail box ensure to contact your claims
agent immediately either by email or telephone as stated above
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