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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: "Mrs Dana Beck" <danabeck@delta-uk.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:33:00 +0000
Subject: RE: WINNER NOTIFICATION!!

DELTA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM (UK)
45 Sheringham Drive,
Nottingham TD2 3HW,
UNITED KINGDOM

FROM: THE PROMOTION DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS DEPT.


FROM: GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS. WINNING NOTICE FOR
CATEGORY "A" WINNER

Dear Delta Winner,

RE: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of Delta Lottery International programs.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 50,000
e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced
automated random computer search from the internet i.e Computer Ballot
System (C.B.S). No tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot,
your e-mail address emerged as one of ten
winners in the category "A" with the following:

REF: 014/060/532
BATCH: 762901-PCD03
ticket number:369739

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of
1,000.000.(ONE MILLION GREAT BRITISH POUNDS ONLY) each from the total
payout.This is from a total cash prize of TEN MILLION POUNDS Shared among
the ten international winners in first categories.

Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory Obligations,
verifications,validations and satisfactory report.

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to
contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winners
with the informatiom below:


Mr David White.
DELTA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL,U.K.
Email:davidwhite994@uk2.net


NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 20 days. After this date
all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote
your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto
information away from the your reference and ticket numbers. (This is
important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).Anybody under
the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not
allowed to participate in this program.


Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Dana Beck.
THE PROMOTION DIRECTOR.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM (UK)

N.B.To file for winning claims Contact your claims agent.

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