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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: "martha smith" <freelotto_couk@msn.com>
Reply-To: frank_milleruk@walla.com
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:59:09 +0000
Subject: Award notice

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

Dear Winner,

My name is MRS MARTHA SMITH, and on the behalf of FREE LOTTO COMPANY OF
UNITED KINGDOM,I wish to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
FreeLotto draw held on the 22nd June 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 2nd category winner in this year's
Annual FreeLotto Draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
1,000,000 GBP (One million GBP 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.FRANK MILLER
WALKER FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD.
14 BRIDGE ROAD, MIDDLESBOROUGH
CLEVELAND TS9 5AA
UNITED KINGDOM
TEL: +44-704-011-0886
FAX: +44-870-133-6955
EMAIL: frank_milleruk@walla.com



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

Sincerely,

MRS MARTHA SMITH


This email notification is auto-generated its contents are valid for only
two weeks and it is unmonitored so do not reply.

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