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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: "ONLINE UK LOTTERY" <onlineuklottery0@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:23:12 +0000
Subject: YOU HAVE WON !!!

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
P.O.BOX.1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#993) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on wed 29th june, 2005 Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number
5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:07-12-23-26-29-44bonus ball 31, which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 6.You have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,183,917{Great Britain
pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a
total cash prize of £2,367,834{Great Britain pounds sterlings} shared
amongst the {2} lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6 . 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 £1,183,917{Great Britain pounds sterlings) would be
released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. Our European agent
will immediately commence the process 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 claims 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. Bright Alexander
Email: brightalex_101@msn.com

You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings
and also get a prize breakdown:-
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

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

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