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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: bill2@handbag.com
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 05:47:10 +0100
Subject: 2005 winner

C/CORDOBA NO 21 PLANTA 2-A
28204 MADRID -SPAIN.
FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
BAREED INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
REF NO: EGS/2551256003/03
BATCH NO: 14/0017/IPD

RE: 2005 AWARD NOTIFICATION, FINAL NOTICE. We are pleased to inform you that
as a result of our RECENT LOTTERY DRAWS HELD on the 2nd of July 2005.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 11 23 34 38 48 49 46 750 with
serial number: 211305 drew lucky numbers: 1315 22 37 39 which consequently
won in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum
pay of ?2,500.000.00 Note that All participants in this lottery program have
been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 2,000
companies and
3,000 individual email addresses from all search engines and web sites. This
?80,400,000.00 Euro is shared among the seventeen international winners in
this
Category.

This promotional program takes palace once every year, and is sponsored by
eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates of Microsoft
inc and other corporate organisations.This is to encourage the use of the
internet and computers worldwide. Your fund is deposited with a corresponding
affiliate African insurance company, insured in your name. Due to mix up
of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from
public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted
to designated account of your choice. It is part of our security protocol
to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by
Participants on this program.

To begin your claim, please contact your claim agent; Mrs. Jennifer Winka
by email at: jenniferwinka@yahoo.com for due processing and remittance of
your prize money to your account.

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than one month from the
date of notification. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delay and complications, please remember
to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences
with
your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform
your claims agent as soon as possible.

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

Sincerely,
Mr. Bill Johnson.

for: BAREED INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winner will result
to disqualification.



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