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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: "british lottery" <admin@britttrust2005.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:07:51 +0000
Subject: BRITISH LOTTERY WINNER

BRITISH LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON LONDON.

Ref:BTL/4910X1/04
Batch: 12/25/0340

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw of the

BRITISH
Sweepstake
Lottery International programs held on the

1st of
April 2005 in London.Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number:
69475600545-721 with Serial
number
8867/04 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 James Smith
Email:jamsmith_2005@yahoo.co.uk
jamsmith_2005@hotmail.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,
Micheal Ronin.
BRITISH LOTTERY
ZONAL ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR

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