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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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Please note about this email:

• It is a fake lottery scam (9 typical phrases found).
  
• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "verification info" <notification@uknationalpromoprogram.com>
Reply-To: lexcharlton@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 01:03:48 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION WINNER!!!

                                                     

The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL

 

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

REF Nº: EGS/2251256003/02

BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE

National U.K Lottery wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain Your email account have been picked as a winner of  SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY.

This results is now released your email address attached in the A Category bonus ball     and bonus ball   to check your results on-line click on this link http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses users.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program,For the release of your winning.

All winning must be claimed not later than One Week of Acknowledgment. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as Unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

You are therefore advised to give the following information's to your claims agent listed below,

Mr. Alex Charlton
Programs & Events Department.

E-mail: lexcharlton@yahoo.co.uk

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Julie Van Hans,

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