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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: "South Australia Lotteries." <arielsbertis@rediffmail.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 12:59:02 +0300
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

South Australia Lotteries.
S.A Lotteries Melbourne Corporate Office
Level 3, 54-56 Cambridge Terrace
PO Box 3145 Melbourne, Australia.

Sir/adam,

LOTTERY WINNER!

This is to inform you of the result of the South Australia Lotteries draws
held on the 31st, August, 2005. Your e-mail address attached to Serial
#:01103938151 and e-mail code: 917926-8 drew a cash prize of €1,000,000.00,
in the 2nd class of the draws. You will be paid €1,000,000.00(One Million
Euros).
Because of incessant mix up in cash prize pay-outs, we will advise that you
to keep your winning information confidential until your money
(€1,000,000.00) has been fully remitted to you by our accredited Agent
(Deutsche bank, Amsterdam-Netherlands). Please, you must strictly adhere to
this measure to avoid loss of your cash prize - this measure is put in
place to forestall abuse of this program by other participants.
It's also important to inform you that these draws were conducted
privately. Winners were selected through an internet ballot system, from
extracted e-mail addresses of over 60,000 people around the world. This
private program is sponsored and promoted by South Australia Lotteries.
Congratulations once again for this lucky win. We hope you will use part of
your money to participate in our next draws; the jackpot cash prize is
€55million.
Remember, you must claim your cash prize not later than 14 working days
from today. If you fail to claim your cash prize after the expiration of
this deadline, the unclaimed cash prize will be forfeited by you - we will
include it in our next sweepstake.
Please, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to
quote your personal/winning information (Serial #: 01103938151 and
e-mail code: 917926-8) in all your correspondence with our paying bank.
Congratulations once again from all members of South Australia Lotteries.
To get your cash prize released to you immediately, please kindly contact
our Paying Bank ( Deutsche Bank, Amsterdam-Netherlands)
Send them the following:
(a). Your names.
(b) Your contact telephone and fax numbers.
(c) Your contact Address.
(d) Your winning numbers (Serial #: 01103938151 and e-mail code: 917926-8).
(v) Amount won.
Send the information to:
Contact person: Henriette Mark(Mrs.).
Director: Private banking and Foreign Remittance,
Deutsche Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
E-mail: custservicesinfo@netscape.net
Tel: (+ 3162) 191 6606.
Fax: (+3184) 750 4579.
Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,
Trevor Hall.
CEO/Lottery Coordinator.

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