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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: "ECO LOTTO" <eco_lotto15@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:33:28 +0200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

ECOLOTTO INTERNATIONAL
6-8 CHARLTON AVE,
SENTINEL, DAKAR SENEGAL.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to announce you as one of the lucky winners in the ECO LOTTO draws recently held. All the winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual Eco Lotto Draw.

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

(i) winning numbers: 77-25-33-10-55-11
(ii) email ticket number: ECO754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: ECO09622SN
(iv) the file Ref number: ECO/05/736207152/SN

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

Clearance Officer:
Ms. Nelly Omens
eco_lotto@hotmail.com

Eco Lotto promotion is sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mcintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies. Eco lotto internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.

For security purpose and clarity,we advise that you keep your winning informations confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid fraudulent unwarranted abuse of this programe by some particitants. All winning must be claim not later than one month after the date of this notice.

NOTE: YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE
BELOW 25 YEARS OF AGE.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely yours,
Hon. Phil Omar
(LOTTERY COORDINATOR)


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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam