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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: "mary flanagan" <mary@flanaganworld.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:50:56 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

British Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON

Ref: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch: 12/25/0304
Date: 23/02/2005

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw of the British
Lottery
International programs held on the 1st of February
2005 in London.Your
e-mail
address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545 188
with Serial number
5388/02 drew the lucky numbers:31-6-26-13-35-7,which
subsequently won
you
the lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore,
been approved to
claim a total sum of US$2,500,000.00 (Two million,
five hundred
thousand,
United StatesDollars) in cash credited to file
KPC/9080118308/02.This
is
from a total cash prize of US $125 Million dollars,
shared amongst the
first Fifty (50) lucky
winners in this category.

This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever
for British
Lottery.The estimated $125 million jackpot would be
the sixth-biggest
in
U.K. history. The biggest was the $363 million jackpot
that went to two
winners in a May 2002 drawing of The Big Game, Mega
Millions'predecessor.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated
in our play
coupon.In view of this, your US$2,500,000.00 (Two
million, five hundred
thousand,United States Dollars) would be released to
you by our
affiliate
bank in London.
Our agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the
release of your funds to you as soon as you make
contact with him .

All participants were selected randomly from World
Wide Web site
through computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000
companies.This
promotion takes place annually. 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 a part of our precautionary
measure to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program
by some
unscrupulous elements.

Please be warned.To file for your claim, please
contact our fiduciary
agent with the below details for processing of your
claims.

AGENT: Mr Melvin Douglas
Email: roy_lottery1@yahoo.com OR
roy_lottery3@yahoo.com

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
quote your
Reference/Batch Numbers
Full names
Residential address
Sex
Age
Nationality

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs
of this
program.Thank you for being part of our promotional
lottery program.
Sincerely,

Mary Flanagan.
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR

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