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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: "BRANDON MICHAEL" <michaelbrandon@eagle-international-uk-webmail.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:27:08 +0000
Subject: WINNING
FROM MR MICHAEL BRANDON.
THE COORDINATOR, EAGLE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY UK.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
EAGLE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, UK.
DEAR WINNER,
SECOND CATEGORY HIGH STAKES DRAW
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,
the Results of the Stakes Draws of EAGLE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY UNITED
KINGDOM. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the
Second Category High Stakes Draw,Which is part of our promotional draws.
The draws were held on 25TH JULY,2005 and results
are being officially announced today. Participants
were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names/email
addresses of Individuals and companies from Africa, America,
Asia,Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International
Promotions Program.
You/Your Company, attached to ticket number
66-1-452, with serial number 52-27 drew the winning
numbers 09 15 18 56 31 60 (25) and consequently won in the Second Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum payout of £1,500,000:00M GBP (One
Million, Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds), which is the winning
payout for Second Category Winners. This is from the total prize money of
£15,000,000:00 shared between six (6) winners in the B Category.
CONGRATULATIONS
Your fund has been long deposited with our
International Funds Transfer agents ACE FINANCE LTD
and has been insured in your name. In your best interest and also to avoid
mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire
details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of
transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your
account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double Claiming or
unscrupulous acts by Participants/non-participants of this program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our end-year 2005 Premium Stakes Draw
where you stand a chance of Winning up to £50 M that will be shared Amongst
10 winners worldwide, we hope that with a part of your prize you will
participate.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated bank account of your choice;
MR. BRIAN HAYS
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER
ACE FINANCE LIMITED
642 HIGH ROAD,
GREATER LONDON E113AA, UK
FAX:+44-870-133-5238
FAX:+44-870-133-6090
TEL:+44-703-184-9080
Email:brianhaysmangfgndeptacefinltduk@yahoo.co.uk
You are advised to contact your claims agent by
Email and/or fax within a week of receiving this notice.Failure to do so may
warrant immediate disqualification.
NOTE:
For easy reference and identification, find
Below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to
Quote these numbers in every one of your
Correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: EGLUK/05/8256/83219/QE321
BATCH NUMBER: EG5/A005-001
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
MR MICHAEL BRANDON.
THE COORDINATOR,
EAGLE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY UK.
13 GORDON ROAD TUDOR
SQUARE NG25LL LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM.
FAX:44-870-133-6119
Tel:+44-7031943274
N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of
the winners will result to disqualification.
Please do not reply to this mail.Contact your claims agent immediately.
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