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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: "online lotery winnings of GBP880,000.00" <claimsprocessing2002@katamail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:16:18 +0100
Subject:
ONLINE LOTTERY WINNINGS OF GBP880,000.00
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.5
X-Originating-IP: 80.179.244.99
Golden Rose Unlimited
P O Box 657
London, United Kingdom
(Customer Services)
ONLINE LOTTERY WINNINGS OF GBP880,000.00
We happily announce to you the draws of Golden Rose
Lottery, an Online International Sweepstakes Program
held on Friday 11th November, 2005. Your email address
attached to ticket/serial number IE6098-05, with
serial number IE535-29 drew the lucky numbers:
1-15-24-37-42-50 (bonus no. 33), With Ref. Number:
IES/376O05/77, Batch Number: 05/507/IES360 and
subsequently won the lottery in the 1st category.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of £880,000.00 (Eight hundred and eighty thousand
pounds sterling) in cash credited to file
ISPR/7563409218/05. This is from a total cash prize of
£8,680,770.00 shared amongst the first nine (9) lucky
Winners in this category.
All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer
draw system and extracted from over 154,000 Unions,
Associations and Corporate Bodies listed online.
In view of this, your £880,000.00 (Eight hundred and
eighty thousand pounds sterling) would be released to
you by any of our payment offices.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your
winning information confidential till your claim is
processed and your money remitted to you in whatever
manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part
of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program. Deductions from
WINNING SUM are not allowed until WINNING SUM has been
handed over to the winner. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary
agent:
Golden Rose Unlimited
P O Box 657
London, United Kingdom
(Customer Services)
Email: claimsprocessing2002@katamail.com
All prize money must be claimed in ten working days.
After this date, all funds will be returned as
unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please always remember to quote your
reference and batch numbers in every correspondence
with your claims agent. Furthermore, should there be
any change of your address, do inform your claims
agent as soon as possible.
Please include your private telephone and fax numbers
while replying.
Congratulations once again from our team of staff and
thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Helen Woods
Lottery Coordinator
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Note: Anybody under the age of 17 is AUTOMATICALY
DISQUALIFIED and Any BREACH of CONFIDENTIALITY on the
part of the WINNERS will result to disqualification.
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