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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: "blue fountain" <blue_fou003@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: coordinator_lottery@zwallet.com
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 06:28:17 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE ONE OF THE WINNER.
coordinator_lottery@zwallet.com
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
BLUE FOUNTAIN LOTTO WWW-NET INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS
THE NETHERLANDS
Ref. Number:22/756/4007
Batch Number: 497001527-AB66.
Sir/Madam
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Dayzers Loterij
International programs held on the 25th of May,2005.Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number 9570015948-6410 with serial number
3648042-510 drew lucky numbers 4-14-66-71-07-36 which consequently
won in the 1st category, you therefore been approved for a lump sum
pay out of US$7.000.000.00 (Seven Million United States
Dollars) to be shared among the 10 of you in this category.
This automatically qualifies you to personally receive the sum of
US$700.000.00) Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars only.
CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! Due
to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning
information confidential until your claims has been processed and your
money remitted to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All
participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
over 68,000 companies and 80,000,000 individual email addresses and
names from all over the world.
This promotional program takes place twice in every six years.
This lottery is partly promoted and sponsored by Bill Gates,
President of the World Largest software, we hope with part of your
winning you will take part in our next year (USD$65M) Sixty-five
million Dollars international mega lottery. To file for your claim,
please contact our assigned official agent/claims and duty officer:
BLAZERS PROMO LOTERIJ
coordinator_lottery@zwallet.com Remember, all winning must be claimed
not later than 25th of June 2005. After this date all unclaimed
funds will be included in the next stake.
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, do
remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all
correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do
inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being successful in our lottery promotional program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
Sincerely yours,
MRS. MAGRET JAMES
Lottery Coordinator
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification.
This E-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for
the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may
contain Information that is privileged, proprietary, confidential and
exempted from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you
are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this
communication is strictly prohibited.
If you have received this communication in error, please notify the
sender, and erase this E-mail message immediately.
___________________________________________________________
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