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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: hopgra@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:42:54 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Congratulation=2E?=
ORGANISATION OF PETROLEUM EXPORTING COUNTRIES[OPEC]
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LOTTERY PROGRAM.
AWARD DEPT.NIGERIA
REF:ODD/7316786098/04
BATCH: 14/055/IPD/IFY
WINNING NO:750333933-77
DEAR WINNER.
WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE:
This is to inform you of the announcement made on the 5th
of March 2005 of your selection as one of the 17 winners
of the OPEC INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LOTTERY PROGRAM held
recently as part of our NEW YEAR BONANZA. Participants were
selected through a computer ballot random sampling method
drawn from 2,500,000 names/email addresses of individuals
and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,
Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our
International Promotions Program.
You/Your company, attached to winning number 750333933-77
with serial number 544018 drew the lucky numbers
27-842-70-77 and consequently won in the First Category.
You are therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
USD$2,700,000.00 (Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand
Dollars only) in cash credited to file REF
NO.GML/2551256003/23. This year's Diversity OPEC sweeptakes
Lottery program made available the sum of $34,000,000 from
the OPEC fund for international development to be shared
among seventeen lucky winners across the world.
Place of Claims: - All cash prizes under an amount defined
by the Director may be claimed through a duly authorized
claim center in any of the OPEC members country, which may
be but is not limited to an Agent's licensed location or at
the offices of the Division of Revenue. All cash prizes
greater than $5000 must be claimed at the claims agent
office in any of the OPEC members country zone for such
purpose.
In light of this, your prize money will be settled by our
claims agent in Nigeria PECIFIC SECURITIES AND FINANCE LTD.
You are to contact our agents by email within a week of
receiving this notice. Please find full contact details
below:
Dr. Thomas Ayuba.
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
PECIFIC SECURITIES AND FINANCE LTD.
7 Victoria Gardan City Ikoyi Lagos.
Nigeria.
Email Address: ayubathomas@hotmail.com
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 you are seriously advised to keep
all winning lottery information and numbers from the public
in line with OPEC security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by
unscrupulous individuals.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for
being part of our Promotions program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Grace Hopkin.
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to Disqualification. Please do not
reply to this mail. Contact your claim agent.
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