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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: "Richard Morgan" <success@successweb.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:53:35 +0000
Subject: You won X2Million,Contact Mr. Fred Akuesule for your payment

Mr. Richard Morgan.
Director, Uk National Lottery Department
Tel no: +447040110501
Fax no: +448701219895
www.playuklottery.com


Our Dear Winner,


YOU HAVE WON £2,000,000.00(TWO MILLION POUNDS STERLING)


This is to announce to you that you have won the Lottery as one of the
winners of our yearly SCIENTIFIC LOTTERY GAME PROMOTION held on 13th August
2005.Your e-mail address attached to ticket # FL754/22/76; with Lotto
code number: FL09622UK drew lucky numbers 19/22/30/35/44/48/3 ,and
consequently won the lottery in category A-C.


You have won the sum of £2,000,000.00 with file Ref #: FL/04/736207152/UK.
This is from total prize money of £20, 000,000.0 (TWENTY MILLION POUNDS
STERLING) shared among the international winners in our category A-C.


All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
15,000 company e-mail addresses and 35,000 individual e-mail addresses
across the Globe as part of our International Promotional Program, which is
conducted annually. Due to the mix up of some e-mail addresses, we ask
that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has
been processed and your money paid to you. This is part of our security
measure to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of
this program.


Our group of philanthropist, Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft Inc, eminent
personalities like the Sultan of Brunei, Multi Choice and other corporate
Organizations promoted and sponsored this lottery program to improve the
use of computer software and for the benefit of every Internet and
Microsoft users. To begin your claim,please contact our payment agent in
Nigeria,West Africa immediately you read this message for quick and urgent
release of your fund to you.Please see below for the Contact information:


Mr. Fred Akuesule
Payment Representative,Uk Lottery Office,Nigeria
#12 Ijesha Road,Surulere Lagos Nigeria-West Africa
Tele #: 234-1-4762929
e-mail: fredaku2005@uku.co.uk


Upon your contact with Mr. Fred Akuesule,you should endeavour to send him
your (a) Your full Name and Address,(b) Your Telephone and fax numbers,(c)
Your tax I.D.Number and (d) Your country of origin.


On behalf of all our staff, we say a big Congratulations to you once
again.Please be informed that you need to claim your winning on or before
the 30th of August, 2005. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
please quote your reference/batch numbers/winning numbers to Mr. Fred
Akuesule so that he can commence action and have your money paid to you.


Regards,


Mr. Richard Morgan.
Director, Uk National Lottery Department

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