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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: "Sherman Earlworth." <lottery@lotto.com>
Reply-To: eddymcgavin@netscape.net
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 16:27:15 +0100
Subject: URGENT

UK-NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTIONS
HEADQUARTERS:
184 WESTINGFIELD DRIVE,S.W 4TH,
P.O.BOX 1010
LIVERPOOL.

Customer Service/ Foreign Claims Dept.

Ref: UK/04/20X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY/Sweepstakes International Promotions held on saturday 1st of january 2005. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 5647-5600-545-188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:04-06-09-12-15-40-25 which subsequently won you the lottery in the second category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £61,111 (Sixty-one thousand, one hundred and eleven poundsterlings) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from the total cash prize of £1,466,664 shared among the twenty-four (24) lucky winners in this category.
All participants for the free online lotto version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system of individual and corporate organisations extracted from over 250,000 email addresses worldwide. This promotion takes place on a quarterly basis.

Your lucky winning numbers falls within our Canadian booklet representative office in the United Kingdom as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £61,111 would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.To file for your claim, please contact the fiduciary agent on our secure online email:

contact official:MR EDDY McGAVIN
Email: eddymcgavin@netscape.net <mailto:eddymcgavin@netscape.net>

Your Winnings Certificate and all other relevant documents for payment accredditation will be prepared after proper authentication and verification of your claims file.
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 claims and unwarranted abuse of this program.
Confirm the value of your winnings online at the link below:

www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

Congratulations once more and thanks for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely yours ,

Sir Sherman Earlworth.
International Coordinator

U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY/SWEEPSTAKES INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your claim agent

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