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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: "HODIN LOTTO" <lotto_agency01@msn.com>
Reply-To: frank_brown555@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:56:24 +0000
Subject: AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
HOLDEN LOTTO AGENCY<BR>REF: LP/26510460037/03 BATCH: 24/00319/IPD
RE: LOTTERY AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION FINAL.
We are pleased to inform you of the release today, 29th of August, 2005 of
the Holden Lotto Agency INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION PROGRAMS held on the
25th of August 2005. Your name attached to Ticket Number 02511464992-750
with Serial Number 2113-05 drew the Lucky Number 3-18-19-30-32-39, which
consequently won the Lottery in the 3rd category. You therefore have been
approved for the lump sum payout of United States Dollars $547,828.87 (Five
Hundred and Forty Seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight Dollars &
Eighty Seven Cents only) in cash credit to the referenced file number REF:
LP/26510460037/03. This is from a total prize release of United States
Dollars $9, 313090.79 share among the Seventeen (17) International winners
in this same category
CONGRATULATION!
Due to the mixed up of some numbers and names, we request that you should
keep this Award notification a top secret from the public until your total
Won Prize is processed and your amount remitted to your account as this is
part of our security protocols/measures put in place to checkmate
malpractices and to avoid double claiming of awards or unwarranted taking
advantage of this program. NOTE that all participants in this lottery
exercise were selected through a Computer Ballot system drawn from 25,000
existing names from Australia, USA, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, Middle-East,
South and North America as part of our International Promotions Program
(I.P.P), which we conduct once in every year. You should therefore count
yourself luck that your own name was selected amongst other names and you
emerged a lucky winner in this 2005 edition of this program. CONGRATULATIONS
ONCE AGAIN! We also hope that with a part of your prize, you will take part
in our end of the year High Stake Euros 300 Million International Lottery
program. To redeem your prize, please contact the Issuing Authority, (your
Prize Claim Agent/Our Foreign Service manager) for instant processing and
disbursement of your total won prize to any designated bank account of your
choice. Contact your Lotto Agent, Mr. Frank Brown via email:
frank_brown555@yahoo.co.uk
Remember, all "Won prizes" must be claimed not later than 6th of August
2005. After this date, all funds unclaimed would be returned to the
organizers of this promotion as unclaimed prizes. In order to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your
Reference and Batch numbers in every of your correspondence with your agent.
Should there be any change in address of any beneficiary, do not hesitate to
inform your claim's agent as soon as possible. Please remember also to ask
for your prize claim Certificate.
CONGRATULATION FOR BEING PART OF OUR PROMOTION PROGRAM!
Best regards,
FROM THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
(HOLDEN LOTTO AGENCY)
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