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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: dnl_agency@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:34:26 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WINNING=20CLAIM?=

WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "B" IL/FLW/12-C033721192 :




Department of National Lottery

28 February Road Accra Ghana

Customer Service 852 GHA 84042

WINNING CLAIM



Dear Sir/Madam





It is our pleasure to inform you that you have emerged as a
Category "B" winner of the Department of National Lottery.
CONGRATULATIONS! You are entitled to a prize sum of one
million united state Dollars (1,000,000.00.Usd) Reference
number for your prize is IL/FLW/12-C033721192 , ticket
number A/03-4912. As a category "B" winner, you have been
selected from a total number of 100,000 names drawn from
Asia, Africa, Europe, Middle East and America. After the
computer ballot of our International Promotions Program,
only Ten winners emerged in this category and therefore are
to receive payouts of one million united state Dollars
(1,000,000.00Usd) from the total 10,000,000.00Usd for
second category winners.

To immediately collect your prize, please contact our
Category "B" Fiduciary Agent with information

below:

1.Full Name

2.Ticket number and file number

3.Telephone and fax

4.Residencial Address

Dr Rev Garry Robert

Claim Agent

Accra Ghana


Email:garrobert1@yahoo.com
Email:garrobert@mail2broker.com




Provide prize reference number IL/FLW/12-C033721192 and
winning ticket number-A/03-4912 for confirmation. In your
best interests, you must initiate contact within one week
of receipt of this correspondence.The financial institution will handle
all financial matters with
regards to claiming your prize. You are also advised to
send a copy of this email to our fiduciary Agent handler Dr
Rev Garry Robert ,when contacting him. You are to keep all
lotto information from the public as we will not entertain
cases of multiple claims processing or compromise the
privacy and security for all winners. Other necessary
International Lotto Ghana information

are:

Draw 1 number: 01-11417

Draw 2 number: 02-7962

Draw 3 number: 03-4365

International Lottery code no: IL56009

You may be required to provide any of the above information
during the process of collecting your prize. We
congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you
participate in any of our international programs in the
nearest future. Thank you.



Sincerely,

Mr.Anderson Ricardo

Promotions Manager

Department of National Lottery



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