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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: "Rosemary Van" <rosevan02@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:48:13 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

BRITISH LOTTERY HEADQUERTERS
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!
BRITISH WEB LOTTERY IS
REGISTERED UNDER THE
DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration Z720633X).

BRITISH WEB LOTTERY
P.O.Box 1010
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON

Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Batch Nr: PBL2348974321
Date: 29th / 08 /2005.
Dear Consultation Prize Winner,

BRITISH LOTTERY HEADQUERTERS NOTICE

Europe/ America private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors,
BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUERTERS International,officially bring to your
notice of the final draw result of the 27th AGUST-2005 BRITISH WEB LOTTERY
Wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office
complex in The CROYDON.LONDON.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email
coupon umber which was selected among the 45 lucky consultation prize
winners.

Your email ID identified with coupon No.PBL2348974321 and was selected by
our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the
50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.

Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses
submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You
have won a consultation cash prize of US $2,500,000.00 (Two Million Five
Hundred Thousand US Dollars) The BRITISH WEB LOTTERY . have approved a
payout of your consultation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to
you by the official Payment Agency Board.

Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and
provide additional information and processes for the claims of your
consultation prize. For due processing of your winning claim, please
contact the DPU Information Officer Mr Thomas Brown who has been assigned to
assist you.

Contact E-mail:thomasbrown@web2mail.com
Officer Mr Thomas Brown

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consultation
prize winning,we hope you will partake our forth coming BRITISH WEB
LOTTERY -Wheel Email-games.

Regards,
Mrs Rosemary Van
(Group Coordinator)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NB: In accordance with the BRITISH WEB LOTTERY -wheel E-games policy and
regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the
45 lucky consultation prize Winners. This notification also contains
information that isproprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise
legally exempt from disclosure.

If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the
lucky number along with the winning informations you are not
authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any
part.

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