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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: "CLAIMSPROCESS CLAIMSPROCESS" <claims_information@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:26:49 +0100
Subject: YOU HAVE WON!!!

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
AWARD DEPT
Attn Lucky Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual draw of
our Lottery International
Programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
82,000,000 e-mail addresses of
individual and corporate bodies picked by an advancedn automated random
computer search from the internet. No
tickets were sold.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a
winner in the category "A" with
the following numbers attached Ref Number: PB 6611 IX 10001,Batch Number:
76586858579/5NL/2005 and Ticket
Number: 555673502 /8707-01 You are therefore to receive a cash prize of
$1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) from the total payout.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail
address and will be transferred to
you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications,
validations and satisfactory report.
To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to
contact our Certified and
Accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information below:
**********************************************
Name: Daniel Rockson
Email: rocksonagent@myway.com
claimsinfo@netscape.com
Tel : +31 649-224-396
Fax : +31 84 757-3500
**********************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days, thereafter
unclaimed funds would be included in
the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all
correspondence.
You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your
reference and ticket numbers. (This is
important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).Members of the
affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional
program.
Yours Faithfully,
Walter Jones.
Lottery Coordinator.
Thank you and congratulations!!!

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