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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: rockies_2005lottery@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:08:24 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WINNING=20NOTIFICATION?=

E.A.A.S Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
Euro - Afro Asian Sweepstake Lottery
an Affiliate of watergate inc.
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02
Batch: 12/25/0034

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw of the Euro - Afro Asian Sweepstake
Lottery International programs held on the 1st of march 2005 in London..Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545 188 with Serial
number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7,which subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore,been approved
to claim a total sum of US$2,500,000.00 (Two million, five hundred thousand,
United StatesDollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This is
from a total cash prize of US $125 Million dollars, shared amongst the
first Fifty(50) lucky winners in this category. Please note that your lucky
winning number falls within our European booklet representative office
in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your US$2,500,000.00
(Two million, five hundred thousand,United States Dollars) would be released
to you by our affiliate bank in London.Our agent will immediately commence
the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you
make contact with him. All participants were selected randomly from World
Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
companies.This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you
are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims
is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem
fit to claim your prize..This is a part of our precautionary measure to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
elements.Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the below
details for processing of your claims.

AGENT: Mr Ronald Rogers
Email: tunnels2005@myway.com

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch
numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.Congratulations
once more from all members and staffs of this program.Thank you for being
part of our promotional lottery program.

sincerely,
SIR John Barckley
AFRO-ASIAN zonal coordinator










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