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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: Estella Rogers <estellarogers2005@zwallet.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:24:15 +0100
Subject: PERSONAL ENTITLEMENT AWARD PRIVATE

Dear Recipient,

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the First Category draws of TRIPPLE
WINS INTERNATIONAL GAMES. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under
the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held prior to your notification .

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 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 E-mail id, attached to Ref number MLI/231-ILG10431/03 ,Batch Number
EAPA/15/096/PTNL, Tiicket Number 20511465897, with Serial Number 472-971103 ,Drew the lucky
numbers 8-66-97-22-71-64 and consequently won in the First Category A+.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of $US1.5m(One Million,Five Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars) each, which is the winning payout for Category" A" winners. This is from the total
prize money of USD$9,000,000 shared among the 6 Winners in this category.


This funding was made possible by microsoft international to support the use of mircosoft software and
improve Globalization in conjunction with European's Lotteríes.
CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with our transfer agents Cash Change Securities Europe ,and 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 Beneficiary
Certificate Ownership Winning Notification, Stamp duties and re-activation of Account of your prize
/money remitted in readiness of the subsequently onward transfer into your nominated Bank Account.
This is in conformity with the latest transfer regulation signed by the Organization / Netherlands
Government since this is part of our Security protocol measures to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants .


We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year premium stakes draw where you stand a chance of
winning up to USD$25 Million; we hope that with a part of your prize you will participate in it.

To file for your claim, please contact our /your fiducial agent Mr JOHNSON ADAMS of the EURO
ACCREDITED PAYMENT AGENT immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to
a designated account of your choice:

TEL: +31-629-338-244
FAX: +31-641-593-184
Email: euroadams0@aim.com , euroadams@zwallet.com, j_adams@walla.com ,
euroadams@netscape.net

You are advised to contact our agents by E-mail and/or fax within a week of receiving this notice. Failure
to do so may warrant disqualification.


NOTE: That all winning must be claimed not later than 30th of JANUARY 2006. After this date all
unclaimed, funds will be included in the next stake.Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified.

Finally, we ensure that you note every letters as clearly stated as we would not be held responsible
should there be hitch in this transaction due laxity on your part.So you are to expedite action ,Failure to
do this we shall be compelled to lose your fund in other words,we shall divert your fund to somewhere
else.In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications;Kindly remember to quote your reference
number and batch numbers in all correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional
program.

Yours Truly,

Mrs. Estella Rogers
Lottery Coordinator

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