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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: "ITALIAN CLAIM SERVICE" <sweepstakeclaim@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:10:59 +0000
Subject: CONTACT CLAIMS AGENT!

ITALIA INTERNATIONALE SWEEPSTAKES
LOTTERY



ITALIA INTERNATIONALE
SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY
24B CHARAILLE,
VIA REPUBLICA ANEOLA,
ITALY.
DATE:28/09/2005

Ref: IT/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

YOUR GRAND PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#942) of the ITALIAN INTERNATIONALE
LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International programm held on tuesday 28th of
september, 2005. It is yet to be claimed and you are getting the final
notification as regards this.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
56475600545188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:



(supplementry numbersand ), which subsequently won you the lottery in the
1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £850,000.00 (Eight
Hundred and Fifty Great Britain Pounds)credited to file No
KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £4,949,880 shared
amongst the(4)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This
promotion takes place weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our UK booklet
representative office in UK as indicated in your play coupon. In view of
this, your cash prize will be released to you by any of our payment offices
in the uk.


Our UK delivery agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
For security reasons, Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that
you keep your winning information confidential until your claim has been
processed and
money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize,
as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants as it has
happened in the past.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.


To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent Mr Johnson Clark
sending your filled verification form to him on this email address:

Official Email: sweepstakes_clark@yahoo.it

TEL:+44703184097

VERIFICATION AND FUND RELEASE FORM

1.FULL NAMES:......... .................................

2.ADDRESS:...............................................

3.SEX:......................................................

4.AGE:.....................................................

5.MARITAL STATUS:........................... .....

6.OCCUPATION:........................................

7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:............................

8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:....................B.FAX NUMBER.................

9. SERIAL NUMBER:............................

10.TICKET NUMBER:...........................

11.REF NUMBER:..................B. BATCH NUMBER...........................

12.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL :..................

13.AMOUNTWON:........................................................................

14.COUNTRY................................................................................

Upon receipt of the duly requested data, I will send you the contact
information of the payment office so you can proceed with effecting the
release of your cash prize.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE ITALIA INTERNATIONALE
SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERYand thank you for being part of our promotional lottery
program.

Sincerely,
David Danti
IISL Zonal Coordinator.

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