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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: "Greg Smith" <brian@xcummings09.com>
Reply-To: mariageorge90@inbox.com
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:14:09 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE WON.

The management of liverpool football club is glad to announce to the world
the giving away of the sum of TWENTY MILLION UNITED KINGDOM POUNDS million
to 40 lucky email addresses all over the world.This promotion is in
appreciation of our International Support in the European Champions League
Finals In Turkey and the correspondent capital profit in the stock market
which was far beyond our projected quarterly earnings. It is also to Mark
the Club's over 100 years of co-operate existence.

Please be informed that all winners in this program have been selected
randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 500,000 companies
and individual e-mail addresses database.

Your email address happened to be one of the lucky winner of five hundred
thousand pounds among the Forty email addressess chosen. For all our
international winners the value of the amount comes to ($917,956.00 USD)
Nine Hundred and Seventeen thousand, Nine hundred and fifty-six
United States Dollars.

In other to claim your £500,000.00 prize, you will have to fill the form
below and send it back to us for verification and then you will be inform on
how your Cashier's Check for £500,000.00 has already been deposited with
your email contact.

NAME:..................................................................
AGE:...................................................................
SEX:..................................................................
ADDRESS:...............................................................
EMAIL:................................................................
PHONE
No.:.................................................................
OCCUPATION:..........................................................
COMPANY:...............................................................
COUNTRY:..............................................................

Please you are adviced to complete the form and send back to us for prompt
collection. You are automatically disqualified if you are below 18 years of
age.

Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
disqualification.This E-mail message (including attachments, if any)is
intended for the use of the individual or
entity to which it is addressed and may contain Information that is
privileged,proprietary,confidential and exempted from disclosure. If you are
not the intended recipient, you are notified that any
dissemination,distribution or copying of this
communication is strictly prohibited.
Sincerely,
Mr.Greg Smith.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent
Mrs.Maria George.
EMAIL:mariageorge90@inbox.com


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