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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: mercy dede <mercywhite2007@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:36:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION
ECOWAS NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMO
GHANA HEAD OFFICE
PLOT.14 BANKU
AVE,
NEW TOWN ACCRA CENTRAL,
GHANA.
(customers services)
Ref:
NAS/941OYI/04
Batch:04/06/MA34
(NO TICKET WAS SOLD)
To file for your
claims,please contact our fiduciary agent:,
Mike
Kanza(Barr)
Email:mikekanza_33@sify.com
Tel #:+233-246-712-421
Fax #:+233-216-62660
We announce to you
that your e-mail qualified you a winner in our year
to year annual
free lotto lottery ticket. As a result the ticket
number; 56475600545
188 was assigned to your e-mail address amongst the
five(5)
consecutive winner of the five(5) lotto lottery free ticket all
over
the world. NOTE: This is a yearly promotion and all participants
for
the on-line free lotto ticket version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites by picking Internet mail users gotten from over
100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
on-line.
Your e-mail address with the assigned ticket number:
56475600545 188 of
serial number: 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 03,
08, 09, 25, 30, 35,
-- Bonus 28, which subsequently won you the
lottery in the 1st category
of Ecowas lotto plus 1 draw i.e. match 5
plus bonus, held on Saturday,
26Th August 2006. It is now available
for claims and you are getting
the final NOTIFICATION as regards
this.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £2
Million
(Two million Euros) in cash credited to file KT/9023118308/03.
This is
from a total cash Price of £4,419,864 shared amongst the two
(2) lucky
winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus 1 bonus.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Africa
booklet representative office in Africa as indicated in your play
coupon.
In view of this, your £2 Million (Two million Euros) will be
released
to you by any of our payment office in Europe.
Our Africa
Payout Agent, (barr) mike kanza will commence immediately
the process
to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you
contact him.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information
confidential till your claim is completely processed and
your
money
remitted to you. 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 Africa agent:
(barr)Mike Kanza.
Tel: +233-246-712-421
PLEAS PASS THIS ON TO
Email: ecowaslotto107gh@sify.com
Endeavor to email him the below
information in order to begin your
claiming process:
FULL NAMES;
ADDRESS; COUNTRY; PHONE NUMBER; OCCUPATION Informing him
you are a
winner.
Congratulations from me and staff of the ecowas(Africa)
Lottery.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. mercy kwame
(On line
coordinator)
Africa Lottery (ecowas) International Program.
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