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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: lonlotto@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 12:18:35 +0200
Subject: WINNER

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND
www.freelotto.com

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
FreeLotto draw held on the 15th of May 2005. All 10 winning addresses
were
randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your
email
address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this
year's
Annual FreeLotto Draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
1,000,000 pounds (one million pounds) only.The following particulars
are
attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for
the
immediate release of your winnings:

Mr.Peter Degrace Makati
Cordinator For Africa
The Freelotto Company
email:peterdegrace_snr@yahoo.com



N.B:Steps to claiming your prize;
1.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the
claims
officer.
2.Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address
where they want their prize paid or sent.
3.Winners must send thier names,address,telephone number
and means of identification (international passport or drivers
licence)to
claim officer, via email or fax, to process the immediate payment of
your
prize.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Julia Simsom Smith.
Promotions Manager
The Lotto company
Europe & AFrica.

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The FreeLotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a
conglomeration of other international IT companies.The freelotto
internet
draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of
the
internet and computers worldwide.We are proud to say that over 200
Million
Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam