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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: loteriasociedad@tiscali.it
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 17:06:00 +0100
Subject: RESPOND AS INSTRUCTED

LOTERIA NACIONALE. DE SOCIEDAD
PROMO/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.


REF: LNDS/DA8219-50/NB
BATCH: 9041/0052414/dd

ATTENTION:

RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION / PROCESSING ADVICE: LNDS
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 6th December, 2004
of winners of the SCIENTIFIC GAME PROMO LOTTERY; PROGRAMS held on 2nd December,
2004. Your email address attached to ticket number 680/099212; with serial
number wo/77112 drew the lucky numbers 05-60-33, and consequently won the
lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of 1,300,000,000Euros
(ONE MILLION Three hundred Thousand Euros). This is from the total prize
money of 15,900,000.00 Euros shared among the international winners in our
1st - 4th categories. All participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from 25,000 company email addresses and 30,000,000 individual
email addresses from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, North America
and Asia as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted
annually.

CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now in custody of a Financial Firm awaiting
transfer into your designated accounts. Due to the mix up of some numbers
and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until
your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This
is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims or unscrupulous
acts by some participants of this program.

This lottery program was organized by our group of philanthropist promoted
and sponsored by Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft Inc, eminent personalities
like the sultan of Brunei, Multi Choice and other corporate Organisations.This
lottery program was organized to encourage the use of computer softwares
and for the benefit of every Microsoft user. We hope with part of your prize,
you will participate in our end of year high stakes 100,000,000Euros International
Lottery.

To begin your claim, please contact your Payment Coordinator.

MR MICHAEL KAREL
Email address:
covenantnv@netscape.com

Please be informed that NON RESIDENCE of THE NETHERLANDS will have their
winning processed as required by the Netherlands Gaming and Control Board
prior to award payment policy in the Netherlands and required by your authorized
paying Bank. Please be aware that your Paying Authority will Effect Payment
Swiftly upon satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided
by this processing Agent. For due processing and remittance of your winning
prize to designated account of your choice, please treat as urgent.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than Two weeks of receipt
of this notice. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delay and complications, please remember
to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences
with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address,
do inform your claims agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once again
from our staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED.

Sincerely,

SONYA WALTER







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