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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: "Royal Lottery Uk Draws" <notification@royallottuk.org>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 23:29:35 +0000
Subject: Grand Prize winner of Royal Lottery *Congratulations*

ATTENTION:

Dear Prize winner,

ROYAL LOTTERY UK conducted its final draws, participants
were selected through a Computer ballot
system drawn from 2,500,000 names/email addresses of
individuals and Companies from Africa,
America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceanic
as part of our international
promotions program. You emerged as one of the grand draw
prize in the Category A and are there
for entitled to a sum of £3,500,000.00 (three million five
hundred thousand Great Britain pounds only).

You/Your company, attached to ticket number 8522-5-556,
with serial number 22-38 drew the lucky
numbers 13-72-75-09 (12) and consequently won in this
Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of
£3,500,000.00 (three million five hundred
thousand Great Britain pounds only), which is the winning
payout for Category A winners. This is from the total prize money of
£7,000,000 shared among the 2
winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Please contact your claims agent immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize
money to a designated account of your choice:

Mrs. Linda Green
FINANCE DIRECTOR
EQUILIBRIUM FINANCE COMPANY U.K.
TEL: +44 704 011 8776
FAX: +44-870-135-7720
Email: equilibrium.finuk@gmail.com


You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or fax
within a week of receiving this notice.Failure to do so may warrant
disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below
your reference and Batch numbers.
Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondences with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: RLUK/3345/7121/09
BATCH NUMBER: R6/A442-77

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you
for being part of our promotions
program.

Sincerely,

THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
ROYAL LOTTERY UK
89 Birchwood Boulevard,
Birchwood.
Warrington WA3 7QH UK


N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification,
this is to avoid double claims. Contact your Claims agent
immediately.

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