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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: infinitylottosa1@netscape.net
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 03:32:12 +0200
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING
NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING
We are pleased to inform you today 8th June 2005 as one of the lucky winners of the INFINITY ELECTRONIC LOTTERY INC draws, held on 23rd May 2005 as part of Our e-business promotional draws.
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: ZAR 23457677/2005 BATCH NUMBER: 79-124-WAN with serial number 818-09 drew the lucky numbers 2-9-22-23-24-30 and consequently won in the first quarter of the 2005 year draw.
You have therefore been approved for lump sum pay out of S$2,200,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for First category winners. This is from the total prize money of US$15,000,000.00 shared among the seven winners in the First category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents. (MEGA FINANCE LIMITED) As we have notified them. Due to the mix-up 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 participants of this program.
We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our quarter of year (2005) high stakes US$1.1 billion International Lottery. To begin your claim, please contact our agent who also will be your claims agent.
MR.DAVID KHOMA
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER
MEGA FINANCE LIMITED
MELVILLE, SOUTH AFRICA
TEL/FAX +27-76 291 2465
EMIAL: megaclaimsdept@excite.com
For due processing and remittance of your prize money, Remember you must contact your claim agent not later than two weeks 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 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 our company security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous individuals. Again, Furthermore, should there be any change in your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our Promotions program.
Yours sincerely,
Customers Service Department
Infinity Lottery Inc.
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.
Anybody below the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
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