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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: <estellarogers2005@zwallet.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:45:38 +0100
Subject: 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 $US2.5m
(Two 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$15,000,000
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.
Visit our sites for more about our weekly lottery program;

www.lotto.nl
http://www.interlotto.com/euro/


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 , 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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