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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: "woodstone paul" <lotterywinners12005@msn.com>
Reply-To: barr_walter@myway.com
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:19:50 +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
1st july 2005.
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#944) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online
Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday june 26th 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with
Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 15-32-27-38-44-34(bonus no.),which
subsequently you won the lottery in the 2nd category i.ematch 5
plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £250,000
(Two hundred
and fifty thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £1,000,000 shared amongst the
first four
(4) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.
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 £250,000 (Two hundred and fifty thousand 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:
barrister woodstone anthony
Email: barr_woodstone@myway.com
You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your
winnings
and also get a prize breakdown:-
http://www.theuknationallottery.com
http://www.national-lottery.com
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.
+44031843940
Open 7 days 8am-11pm

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