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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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From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <australianlotteryoffice@in.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:24:53 +0000
Subject: OW TO CLAIM YOUR
Ref: 435062725
Batch: 7050470902/189
Winning no: GB8101/LPRC
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was released on the 4th of November, 2008, from the Australian International Lottery programme, which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from some sites. Your email address was attached to ticket number; 47001725 07056490102 and serial number 7741134002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 and bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the second category.
You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/09 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotion program which is conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have an operational base. Furthermore, your details(e-mail address) falls within our European representative office in Amsterdam, Holland as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$500,000.00 will be released to you from any of our regional office . We hope that with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR
PRIZE: Simply contact our fiducially agent, REV, DAVID MICHAEL as to file for your claim . Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily. For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme bynon-participants or unofficial personnel. Note, all winnings MUST be claimed on or before the 23rd November 2008; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity organizations.
PLEASE CONTACT REV.DAVID MICHAEL, so that he
will tell you of how you will receive your winning prize.
NAME:
REV. DAVID MICHAEL
EMAIL:: rev_barrister_michael_b@in.com
Congratulations once again on your
win!!!
Best Regards (co-ordinator)
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