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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: "UPTIMUM PROMOTIONS NL NETHERLANDS" <uptimumlotnl01@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:50:45 +0000
Subject: Thank you and congratulations!!!


FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT
UPTIMUM LOTTO NL, Netherlands.
Vendelstraat 207 1012 XB Amsterdam
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
31-10-2005, of our International Lottery Programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an
advanced 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:
UPL/2031/8161/04; Batch Number: R3/A312-59 and Ticket Number: 025/ 078742,
with serial number 05908 drew the lucky numbers 25-35-09-74-82. 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, This is from
the total prize money of 18,900,000.00 US Dollars (Eighteen Million, Nine
Hundred Thousand US Dollars) shared among the international winners in our
1st - 4th categories. 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:

**********************************************
Mr. James Miller
Email:uptimumlotnl@excite.com
:uptimumintl@netscape.net

Tel. No: +31-65-221-8334
Fax. No: +31-61-674-6306
**********************************************
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,
Brenda V/d Lamps

Lottery Coordinator

Thank you and congratulations!!!


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