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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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: "DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL LOTTERY" <hfl-lottery@gh.org> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hfl-lottery@zwallet.com
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:52:37 +0000
Subject: WINNING CLAIM

WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "B" IL/FLW/12-C033721192 :

Heritage Foundation Lottery.
Annex Cedi House
188 Accra Ghana
National department of lottery
Customer Service 852 GHA 84042
WINNING CLAIM

Dear Sir/Madam


It is our pleasure to inform you that you have emerged as a Category "B"
winner of the Heritage Foundation Lottery. CONGRATULATIONS!
You are entitled to a prize
sum of one million united state Dollars (1,000,000.00.Usd) Reference number
for your prize is IL/FLW/12-C033721192 , ticket number A/03-4912.
As a category "B" winner, you have been selected from a total number of
100,000 names drawn from Asia, Africa, Europe, Middle East and America.
After the computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, only Ten
winners emerged in this category and therefore are to receive payouts of one
million united state Dollars (1,000,000.00
Usd) from the
total 10,000,000.00Usd for second category winners.
To immediately collect your prize, please contact our Category "B" Fiduciary
Agent with information
below:
1.Full Name
2.Ticket number and file number
3.Telephone and fax
4.Residencial Address
Dr Denis Wilfred
Fiduciary Agent
Heritage Foundation Lottery
Accra Ghana
Email:dewilfred@zwallet.com

Provide prize reference number IL/FLW/12-C033721192 and winning ticket
number-A/03-4912 for confirmation. In your best interests, you must initiate
contact within one week of receipt of this correspondence.Social security
bank (SG-SSB) Accra Ghana will handle all financial matters with regards to
claiming your prize. You are also advised to send a copy of this email to
our fiduciary Agent handler Dr Denis Wilfred ,when contacting him.
You are to keep all lotto information from the public as we will not
entertain cases of multiple claims processing or compromise the privacy and
security for all winners.
Other necessary International Lotto Ghana information
are:
Draw 1 number: 01-11417
Draw 2 number: 02-7962
Draw 3 number: 03-4365
International Lottery code no: IL56009
You may be required to provide any of the above information during the
process of collecting your prize.
We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you participate in
any of our international programs in the nearest future.
Thank you.

Sincerely,
Mr.Anderson Ricardo
Promotions Manager
National Department of Lottery

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