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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: "POST MASTER" <postmarsters60@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:59:49 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATIONS

Free Lotto
Award Notification.
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today
03/07/2005 of your selection as one of the five winners of the
promotional Free Lotto Sweepstakes held recently as part of
our EXPERIMENTAL BONANZA. You have therefore been approved
for a lump sum pay out of 1,400,000.000USD.(One Million Four
Hundred Thousand Dollars.)
We in the Free Lottery Sweepstakes is by this
program, Launching our model computer balloting lottery
draws, developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of the
ever-growing number of participants in our various lottery programs.
With funds accrued exclusively from previous
draws, payouts to all winners are guaranteed and will be
transferred in record tim
After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial
database of 300,000 emails, all participants were selected
through a computer ballot system from the Middle East, Asia, Africa,
Canada, Europe, USA and South America as part our
international Promotions Program, which was conducted in
view of launching ourselves into the Sweepstakes Industry
Worldwide and zoning all participants by their respective
continents from across the globe, we produced an extensive
list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of
the Grand Draw prize.
You are to contact our agents by email within a week
of receiving this notice. Please find full contact details below


Mr.Alban Williams
External service manager,
Free lotto sweepstakes
United Kingdom
EMAIL:albanwilliams@stalag13.com
Website:www.freelotto.com
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in
every one of your correspondences with your claims agent


Ref No: REF NO: MELI-T/ 17-F044262312
Batch No:901/00319/HLP
Zonal Draw No: GMLA2-003
Grand Draw No: 12099
Congratulations once again.
The Promotions Manager,
The Lotto People
www.freelotto.com
PO Box 42
United Kingdom


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