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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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Please note about this email:

• It is a fake lottery scam (11 typical phrases found).
  
• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: Dicanio Johnson <jennyander00@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:04:30 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION

FROM: UNIVERSAL LOTTERY PROMO INTERNATIONAL
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND.
REF NUMBER: OSL/653/029/03
BATCH NUMBER: AT-040-SB06-03

DEAR SIR/MIR,                 

WE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT AS A RESULT OF OUR RECENT LOTTERY 
DRAWS HELD ON THE 15th OF April 2005.

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 out of $1,000,000  (ONE MILLION DOLLARS)

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 activeparticipation in our next year USD50  million
slot.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiducially agent
MR  BILLY
E-mail address: coprateoffice@yahoo.com

Remember,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.

Sincerely yours,
MR DICANIO JOHNSON
(LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

rvice associated with www.onlineni.net

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