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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: "info australia" <info_australianlottery@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:52:42 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS:You have won contact your claims agent,below

Date:07/09/2005
Ref: ILP/HW 47509/02
Batch:05/763638/IPD
Winning no: 11 13 26 34 44 48


CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dear Sir/Maddam,

We are delighted to inform you of the result of the E-mail address ballot
lottery draw of the Australian cash-out lotto bv international
programme,which took place on the 7th of september 2005.This is a computer
generated lottery of Internet users using email addresses for draws.

This lotto draw is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using
their e-mail addresses from different World Wide Web(www)sites.Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number: 275-189-657-23-05 with Serial number
8756-05 drew the lucky numbers and bonus ball number which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to
claim a total sum of US$400,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS) in
cash credit file ref:ILP/HW 47509/02.

This is from the total cash prize of US$2,000,000 Million Dollars,shared
amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.All participant
were selected randomly through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine
hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,Australia,United
States,Asia,Europe,Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our
international promotions programme which is conducted annually.This Lottery
is being promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of Multinational companies
as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities
where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in Amsterdam,Holland,as indicated in your play coupon
and your prize of US$400,000.00 will be released to you from the regional
branch office in LONDON UK.
We hope with part of your prize,you will participate in our end the year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.Our agent will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you
contact him.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
Simply contact your claims agent,Dr.JOHN SMITH . at
email....(dr_johnsmith_eu_globallottoagent@yahoo.co.uk)
to file for your claim .Please quote your reference,batch and winning number
which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as
your full name,address and telephone number to help locate your file
easily.For security reasons,we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
money remitted/released to you.This is part of our precautionary measure to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme by some
unscrupulous elements,equally to guard against non
participant or unofficial personnel taking undue advantage of this
programme,Note that,all winnings MUST be claimed by a STIPULATED
TIME;otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually be
reabsorbed into our next lucky dip sweepstakes.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS OFFICE,MAKE SURE YOU CONTACT YOUR
CLAIMS AGENT ABOVE.ALSO MAKE SURE YOU SEND DOWN YOUR PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION.

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL
RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.EQUALLY,NOTEWORTHY IS THE REGULATION
THAT PEOPLE BELOW EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE ARE INELIGIBLE TO
PARTICIPATE.

Van Morgan.
International Relation Officer.

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