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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: "derby lotto" <derbylotto22@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:06:56 +0000
Subject: Prize Notification

DERBYLOTTO GROUP INTERNATIONAL
UK OFFICE
SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND
www.freelotto.com

Dear Winner,

On the behalf of DERBYLOTTO GROUP INTERNATIONAL OF UNITED KINGDOM, I
wish
to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the FreeLotto draw
held
on the 22nd august 2005. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected
from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your email
addressemerged
alongside 9 others as 2nd category winner in this year's Annual
FreeLotto
Draw. Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out
of
£1,500,000 (One million five hundred thousand GBP only).

The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

Note that the DERBYLOTTO GROUP INTERNATIONAL will remit prize payout to
only winners who officially file in for their prizeclaims. You are to
choose one out of the listed option by which you want your prize
remitted
to you:
(1) A certified Cheque will be issued in your name and couriered to
your
resident address.
(2) Traveling to our office in London for personal collection of
winning
prize.
Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for
the
immediate release of your winnings:

PRINCIPAL CONSULT
14 BRIDGE ROAD
STOKESLEY
MIDDLESBOROUGH
CLEVELAND
TS9 5AA
UNITED KINGDOM
TEL: +44-704-012-8581
FAX: +44-700-580-7263
EMAIL:ryanwgate@yahoo.co.uk

Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
GROUP PRESIDENT - DLG

This email notification is auto-generated its contents are valid for

only two weeks and it is unmonitored so do not reply.
************************************************************************************
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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam