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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: "lucky winners" <lottery@teambluechips.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 09:24:16 +0000
Subject: winning notification
DEAR SIR/MADAM,
NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING
we are pleased to inform you from PALESA ELECTRONIC LOTTERY.
of the announcement today, 24TH SEPT 2005 as one of the
lucky winners
of The PALESA ELECTRONIC LOTTERY. draws, held on
the 21ST of
SEPTEMBER 2005 as part of Our e-business promotional draws end.
Participants in the draws were selected through a computer
ballot
system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of
individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,
Australia, Europe, Middle East,as part of our electronic
business Promotions
Program.You qualified for the draw as a result of your
visiting various
websites we are running the Electronic-business promotions
for.
You/Your Company email address, attached with REFERENCE
NUMBER:
PLS-PD23-711W-9 , BATCH NUMBER: 49-184-PLS with serial
number 215-18 drew
the
lucky numbers O8, 16, 27, 30, 34, 52, 87 and consequently
won
the september,2005 draw.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
US$1,500,000.00
in
cash, which is the winning payout for First category
winners. This is from
the total prize money of US$10,500,000.00 shared among the
seven winners in
the First category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents.
(IGHO GROUP
Limited) As we have notified them. Due to the mix that may
arise from emails
of winners and numbers we ask that you keep this award
strictly from public
notice until your claim has been processed and your money
remitted to
you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.
We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in
our END
of the year (2005) high stakes US$1.1 billion International
Lottery. To begin
your claim, please contact our paying agent who also Will
be your claim
agent
immediately:
Mr.WILSON BUTHELEZE
MANAGER BROKERAGE SERVICE
IGHO GROUP LIMITED
Email: wilsonbtz@gmail.com
phone: +27-735-152-934
For due processing and remittance of your prize money,
Remember you must contact your claim agent not later
than 10th of octomber 2005 After this date, all funds
will be returned as unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please remember to quote your reference
and batch numbers provided below in every one of your
correspondences with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: PLS-PD23-711W-9
BATCH NUMBER: 49-184-PLS
Also to begin your Claim send to your claims agent the
following information
by email.
1)YOUR BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS and AMOUNT WON
2)YOUR FULL NAME
3)YOUR ADDRESS
4)A COPY OF YOUR ID (PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LISCENCE)
5)CONTACT TLEPHONE, MOBILE PHONE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBER
6)AGE AND OCCUPATION.
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.
Yours Sincerely,
THE LOTTO AWARDS MANAGER,
PALESA ELECTRONIC LOTTERY.
411 SCHOEMAN STREET
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
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 by email.
TEL: +27-735152934
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