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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 Blue" <maryblue@maryblue2005.com>
Reply-To: fiduciary_claimsagent05@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:53:21 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

Dear Sir/Madam,
The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
+447031846401
(8am-6pm)uk GMT TIME1
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#999) of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program
held on Wed 20 Jul 05, 2005. Your e-mail address
attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:04-29-39-41-43-45, and a bonus
number of 42
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total
sum of £251,420 (Two hundred and fifthy-one thousand,four hundred
and twenty pounds) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of £1,005,680
shared amongst the (4) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus
bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies
that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within
our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in
your playcoupon. In view of this, your £251,420 (two hundred and
fifthy-one thousand,four hundred
and twenty pounds)
would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process
to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact
him.
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 part
of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary
agent:
MR. FELIX GATE
Email:FIDUCIARY_CLAIMSAGENT05@LONDON.NET
NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
MARY BLUE
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK

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