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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: "universallotto universallotto" <universallotto44@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:03:58 +0100
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION







The National Lottery
P O Box 1010Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#988) of the UKNATIONAL LOTTERY, online
Sweepstakes International program held on Sat,.11th june, 2005.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:01-02-18-25-34-45 (bonus no.31
),which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5
plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of £209,887 (Two hundred and nine thousand eight hundred and eighty seven
pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize of £1,679,096 {One million six hundred and
seventy nine thousand ninety six pounds sterling}shared amongst the (8)
lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.All participants for
the online version were
selectedrandomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies
that are listed online.

This promotion takes place weekly.Please note that your lucky winning
number fallswithin our European booklet representative office in Europe.

In view of this, your £209,887 (Two hundred and nine thousand eight hundred
and eighty seven pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our
payment
offices in Europe.Our European agent will immediately commence theprocess
to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep yourwinning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent:
Email: petersmith_claimagent1@yahoo.com

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UKNATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Williams clements.
Online coordinator
Tel;+447031909798
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

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