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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: FIVE WAYS COURIER LTD <five_ways_courier_ltd@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:45:03 +0100 (BST)
Subject: WE SYMPATHISE WITH YOU.
FIVE WAYS COURIER SERVICES LIMITED
AUGUST 6,2007
Reg order No:B231282
ATTENTION:Inglebert Kauf.
Mr.Inglebert Kauf,Due to your mail to us(FIVEWAYS COURIER LIMITED),We duely sympathise with You on your last trauma and We want to guarantee You that there will be no misunderstanding or misfortune in this transaction and with the help of Mr.Benjamin Whales(the claims agent of the UKNATIONAL LOTTERY)and He is also Your guarantor that there will be no sorrows but joy.All You have to do is to choose from the options given to You.There are OPTION 1 and OPTION 2;
You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the transferring of your cash prize to you. With regards to this, there are two options open to you; you are required to select the more convenient of the two.
The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:
Option 1:
Courier of your winning draft to you via any of this channel listed below:
FedEx
Mailing...............................£100.00 Insurance.............................£300.00
Vat (5%)..............................£040.75
TOTAL.................................£440.75
UPS
Mailing...............................£100.00
Insurance.............................£300.00
Vat (5%)..............................£030.95
TOTAL.................................£430.95
POST OFFICE MAIL
Mailing; .............................£100.00
Insurance.............................£220.00
Vat (5%)..............................£020.00
TOTAL.................................£340.00
SAMEDAY BY AIR
Flight; ..............................£400.00
Insurance.............................£300.00
Vat (5%)..............................£050.00
TOTAL.................................£750.00
Option 2:
The said amount claim £1,500,000.00 (One million Five Hundred Thousand Euro) will be wired to your bank account via swift bank transfer.
Condition: The cost of COT (commission of transfer) being charged by our transferring bank(i.e. £1,500) of the cash being transferred will be paid by you.
Note that your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it has been remitted to you. This means that the above charges cannot be deducted from the prize and hence must be provided by you before your prize is transferred to you.
Please respond to this email by making a selection from the two options above.
Be reminded that the deadline for the claiming of winnings is exactly two weeks after Your first email. After this period, your cash prize will be deemed to have been forfeited by you and will be reused in the drawings of the next edition of the lottery.
Good luck and Congratulations once again. Please send your response within the next 24hrs to this same email address.
Mr.Brian Howell
Management
Five Ways Courier Express Ltd
Open 7days-24hrs-365days a year.
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