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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: "lin james" <luckydaylottery@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:04:32 +0000
Subject: Congratulation

LUCKY DAY LOTTERY
NIEUWE ZIJDS VOORBURGWAL, NL- 1009 CEH
AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS
REF NUMBER: NHL/653/029/03/SA
BATCH NUMBER: AT-040-SB06.
www.luckyday.nl

DEAR SIR,
We are pleased to inform you, THAT AS A RESULT OF OUR
RECENT LOTTERY DRAWS HELD on the 4th of February, 2005.Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: 27511465896-6410
with serial number 4204-777 drew lucky numbers
5-21-23-34-61-72 which consequently won in the 1st
category. You have therefore been
approved for a lump sum pay out of 750,000 (EUROS) (Seven
hundred and fifty thousand EUROS).

Note that All participants in this lottery program have
been selected randomly through a computer ballot system
drawn from over 200,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual
email addresses from all search engines and web sites. This
promotional program takes place every year, and is
promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities like the
Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates of Microsoft Inc and other
corporate organizations. This is to encourage the use of
the internet and computers worldwide.

For security purposes and clarity, we advise that you keep
your winning information confidential until your claims
have been processed and your money remitted to
you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by some
participants.
You are requested to contact your claims clearance officer
as named below, to assist you with the processing of your
winnings and subsequent payments.

All winnings must be claimed not later than one month after
the date of this notice.
Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, remember to quote your reference number and
batch number in all correspondence. Furthermore, should
there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon
as possible.
Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of
our promotional program.
NOTE: YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE
BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE.
Sincerely yours,
Miss.Lin Jones,
(LOTTERY COORDINATOR)
CLAIMS AGENT:
MRS:Janet Mills.
Janetmills17@yahoo.co.uk OR Janetmills_luckydaylotto@yahoo.co.uk

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