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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: "NOTICE POWER BALL" <notice_pwball@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 05:33:29 +0000
Subject: CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE


POWERBALL LOTTO BV.

POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game

Date: 25th-september-2005
Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE!!!

Europe / America private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors,
POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to your notice of the
final draw result of August-2005 POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game which was
conducted at our international corporate office complex in The
Netherlands.Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to
give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM.By doing this the foundation
seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits.

It major aim is to promote music, theater, art,literature, projects is the
social and political arena with a focus on health,as well as science
research, and higher education.We wish to congratulate and inform you on the
selection of your email coupon number 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$500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand US
Dollars) only.
The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, 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.Malvis Bennade who has been assigned
to assist you.

Contact E-mail:m.bennade@mcrmail.com
TEL:0031-621-987-260
FAX:0031-847-300-537

NAME:Mr.Malvis Bennade

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consultation prize
winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming POWERBALL LOTTO
-wheel Email-games.

Regards,
Maricris Benjamin (Mrs).
(Group Co-ordinator)

NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -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 is proprietary, privileged
or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure.

If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky
numbers along with the winning information’s you are not authorized to read,
print,retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it.



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