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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: thomasclair@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:31:07 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONGRATULATION?=

UNITED KINGDOM LOTTERY,LONDON.
REF NUMBER: UKL/653/029/04
BATCH NUMBER: AT-040-SB06-04

ATTN:OUR LUCKY STAKE WINNER,

We are pleased to inform you,THAT AS A RESULT OF OUR RECENT LOTTERY DRAWS
HELD, Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 27522465896-532 with
serial number 652-662 drew lucky numbers 7-14-18-23-31-45 which consequently
won in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of 2,000,000 (EUROS)
(TWO MILLION EUROS) note that All participants in this lottery program have
been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over
20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from all search
engines and web sites.

This promotional program takes place every year and is promoted and sponsored
by eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei,bill gates of microsoft
inc and other corporate organisations.This is to encourage the use of the
internet and computers worldwide.

For security purpose and clarity, we advise that you keep your winning information
confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted
to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.

We look forward to your active participation in our next year USD50 million
slot.You are requested to contact our clearance officer IN THE NAME OF MR.TONY
POWELL on his direct email:clearance_officer01@yahoo.co.uk to assist you
with your winnings and subsequent payments.All winnings must be claimed
not later than one month After the date of this notice.

Please note,in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,remember
to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.Furthermore,should
there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional
program.

NOTE: YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE.

Yours-In-Service,

MR.PETER GREEN.
Lottery Co-ordinator.





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