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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: "alex morgan" <uklottoclaimsagent2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: alexmorganfh1@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:23:07 +0000
Subject: urgent note




FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
CLEAN LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD
DEPARTMENT,
LONDON, ENGLAND.
REFERENCE NUMBER: BTL53787W1979
BATCH NUMBER: 54/1017/IDL

Dear Winner,
RESULTS FOR PROMOTIONAL DRAW CLEAN LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT wishes to inform you of the results of its Promotional
draws held on the 24th of October 2005.
We officially inform you that you have emerged winner number 4" for our cash
prize, which is part of our promotional draws. Participants were selected
through a central computer ballot system drawn from 4,000,000names/email
addresses of individuals and companies from around the globe as part of our
International Promotions and expansion Program.

Your Lottery Claim is attached to ticket number 43387109625, with serial
number 0001960, and drew the lucky numbers 02-10-30-36-37-43-29 to emerge
one of the Cash 5 winners. You have consequently been awarded lump sum pay
out of 1,200,000.00Pound (One million Two Hundred Thousand British Pounds)
in cash, which is the winning payout for cash 4 winners. This is from the
total prize money of Pound 14.4million Pounds shared between 12
international winners in the category. CONGRATULATIONS!

In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any
kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly
from any third party observation until the process of transferring your
prize is completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of
our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by
participants/non participants of this program.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and payment
to you.

UK National Lottery Payment Office London United Kingdom
NAME:Alex Morgan
EMAIL:alexmorganfh1@yahoo.com
Tel:+447040106280



Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 7th of November
2005,you are advised to contact your agents on receipt of this email.
Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find your reference number;
remember to quote this number in all correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: BTL53787W1979 Thank you for being part of our promotions
program.



Yours sincerely,
Lisa Turner
Lotto Co-ordinator



NB: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
disqualification. Please do not reply to this email. Contact your claims
agent. (TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY).



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