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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: "national lottery" <nationallottery5@msn.com>
Reply-To: mmverner@mail.com
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:45:56 +0000
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
15th June 2005.
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#936) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on saturday 29th April
2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 07-09-19-23-27-49(bonus
no.)02, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match
5 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,313,812
(one million,three hundred and thirteen thousand eight hundred and
twelve pounds sterling ) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £3,941,436 shared amongst the first
three(3)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6.
Draw 936 Wed 15th Jun 05 Jackpot £3,941,436

NUMBER OF MATCHES No OF WINNERS £s PER WINNER TOTAL

Match 6 3 £1,313,812 £3,941,436

Match 5 plus bonus 37 £32,777 £1,212,749

Match 5 1067 £710 £757,570

Match 4 56516 £29 £1,638,964

Match 3 894681 £10 £8,946,810


Totals 952304 £16,497,529

Additional Information

Jackpot winner(s) 3 Machine used for Draw PEARL Winners by Lucky Dip
208656 Ball set used 3 All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that
are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon.In view of this, your £1,313,812 (one million,three hundred and
thirteen thousand eight hundred and twelve pounds sterling ) would be
released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence theprocess 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 claim is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:


MR.mark verner
Email:mmverner@mail.com
Tel:(44)7031842613

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,

Richard K. Lloyd
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days 8am-11pm.

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