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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: "BEN GEORGES" <ben@mail2uk.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 14:01:57 -0700
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#147) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online
sweepstakes International program held on Saturday January 8, 2005. Your e-mail
ddress attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 368/02
drew the lucky numbers: 05-10-13-14-28-42-48(bonus no.), which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 6 plus bonus. You have therefore been
approved to claim a total sum £ 2,203,479 in cash credited to file ktu/9023118308/03
This is from a total cash prize of £25 Million pounds, shared amongst the first Ten
(10) lucky winners in this category.

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. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Asia
booklet representative office in Asia, Europe and America as indicated in your play
coupon. In view of this, your £2,203,479 British pounds would be released to you by
our payment office in Asia, Europe and America, our agents will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact
him.

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 part of our precautionary measures 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: Mr. Hanza MUSA. Email:
musa@mail2indonesia.com,Tel: +6285691300095, 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,
Mr. Ben Georges
(UK-LOTTO Co-ordinator)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam