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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: "Horsefall Sagay" <horsefallsagay@msn.com>
Reply-To: horsefallsagay@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:46:41 +0000
Subject: Cogratulations On Your Winning Prize!
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
HOLDEN LOTTO AGENCY
REF: LP/26510460037/03 BATCH: 24/00319/IPD
RE: LOTTERY AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION FINAL.
We are pleased to inform you of the release today, 12th of September, 2005
of the Holden Lotto Agency INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION PROGRAMS held on
the 11th of September 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 $500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in cash
credit to the referenced file number REF: LP/26510460037/03. This is from a
total prize release of United States Dollars $9, 313 090.79 (Nine
million,three hundred and thirteen thousand, ninty dollar and seventy-nine
cents) shared 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 (CBS) 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 lucky 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.
Clifford Dean via email: lotto_agentkliffdean@yahoo.com .
Remember, all "Won prizes" must be claimed not later than Thursday, 29th of
September 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,
HORSEFALL SAGAY (THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER),
HOLDEN LOTTO AGENCY.
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