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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: "jpieterman1@ommail.com" <jpieterman1@ommail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:57:57 -0500
Subject: You won

DE LOTTO

INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT.



REF Number: BNE/231-ILGI0431/05
BATCH No: EAPA/15/096/TVFS
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: 472-9768-98
LUCKY No: 8-66-97-22-65-99



RE: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION

Sir, Madam

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery
Winners International programs held on the 30th June 2005
Your E-mail address attached to Ticket number
20511465463-7644 with Serial number 472-9768-98 drew the
lucky numbers 8-66-97-22-65-99, which consequently won in
the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a
lump sum payout of US$ 1,000,000.00 (One Million United
States Dollars). This is from a total cash prize of
USD$10,000,000.00 Million shared amongst Ten International
Lucky Winners in the Category A + (Plus).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This lottery is a promotional program by DE LOTTO, (Biggest
lottery Organization in the Netherlands) to advertise to the
world its existence. All participants were selected through
a computer ballot system drawn from over 50,000 companies
and 2,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the
world, as part of our international promotions program,
which we intend to conduct several times a year.
Be informed that your documents have to pass our authority
to obtain a clearance, which shall be attached to your
document in readiness of the subsequent onward transfer into
your nominated bank account with 24 hours of completion of
the authentication.
Due to the possibility of unscrupulous individuals filing a
double claim, we suggest that you keep this award strictly
confidential until your claim has been processed and
notarized and your certificate of award obtained. This is in
conformity with the lottery claim regulations by our
Organization & the Netherlands Gaming Control Board.
This is part of our security protocol measures to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by
some participants/non participants.

All winnings must be claimed not later than 20th July 2005.
After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the
next stake. Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified.

To file for your claim, please contact our /your processing
agent
Mr. Harry Herman.
Email: claimsdpt98@excite.com

NOTE: All winnings must be notarized and a certificate of
award must be obtained from the Netherlands Gaming Control
Board to complete the claims process, this certificate can
only be obtained through legal representation so winners
will be referred to a lawyer to assist in this process.
Winners are to cover the legal charges for the notarization
of the claims form and the acquisition of the certificate of
award not DE LOTTO.

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
please do forward your Tel/Fax number to your processing
agent. So you are to act fast in the claiming of your funds,
for delays will compel us to disperse your funds, in other
words, we shall divert your funds as stated above. Kindly
remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in
all correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform
our/your agent as soon as possible.
Finally, we call on you to make sure that you note every
letter clearly as stated for we will not be held responsible
should there be any complications in this transaction due to
laxity on your part.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and
thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours truly
Johanna Pieterman
Lotto Coordinator.

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