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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: "simon croft" <simoncroft@eglobalwebmail.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:47:00 +0000
Subject: EGLOBAL LOTTERY WINNER
FROM MR SIMON CROFT.
THE COORDINATOR, EGLOBAL LOTTERY UK.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD
DEPARTMENT.EGLOBAL LOTTERY, UK.
DEAR WINNER,
SECOND CATEGORY HIGH STAKES DRAW
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the Results of the
Stakes Draws of EGLOBAL LOTTERY UNITED KINGDOM. We are happy to inform you
that you have emerged a winner under the Second Category High Stakes
Draw,Which is part of our promotional draws.
The draws were held on 1 MARCH,2005 and results are being officially
announced today. Participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 30,000 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 ticket number 66-1-452, with serial number
52-27 drew the winning numbers 09 15 18 56 31 60 (25) and consequently won
in The Second Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum payout of £2,500,000:00M GBP (Two
Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds), which is the winning payout for
Second Category Winners.This is from the total prize money of
£15,000,000:00 shared between six (6) winners in the B Category.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your fund has been long deposited with our International Funds Transfer
agents ACE FINANCE LTD and has been insured in your name. 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 process of transferring your claims has been
completed, and your funds remitted to your account.This is part of our
security protocol to avoid doubleClaiming or unscrupulous acts by
Participants/non-participants of this program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our mid-year 2005 Premium Stakes Draw
where you stand a chance of Winning up to £50 M that will be shared
Amongst 10 winners worldwide,we hope that with a part of your prize you
will participate.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for dueprocessing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated bank account of your choice;
MR. BRIAN HAYS
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER
ACE FINANCE LIMITED
642 HIGH ROAD,
GREATER LONDON E113AA, UK
FAX: +442076812904
Fax: +447005804283
Tel: +447040119106
MOBILE: +8821646655614
Email: h_brian@acefinanceltd-uk.org
You are advised to contact your claims agent by Email and/or fax within a
week of receiving
this notice.Failure to do so may warrant immediate disqualification.
NOTE:
For easy reference and identification,find Below your reference and Batch
numbers.Remember
to Quote these numbers in every one of your Correspondence with your claims
agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: EGLUK/05/3333/83519/QE321
BATCH NUMBER: EG5/A03-18
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
MR SIMON CROFT.
THE COORDINATOR,
EGLOBAL LOTTERY UK.
13 GORDON ROAD TUDOR
SQUARE NG25LL LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM.
TEL: +44 70-4011-8521
Fax: +44 70-0580-2154
Fax: +44 70-0580-4269
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 claims
agent immediately.(TERMS AND CONDITION APPLYS).
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