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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: "lotto post" <lotto_post777@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 07:29:15 -0600
Subject: LUCKY WINNER

UK HEAD OFFICE

SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS

CENTRAL LONDON

ENGLAND

www.lotterypost.com
09/11/2005

Dear Winner,



We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky

winners in the

lotterypost . draw held yesterday the 8th of November
2005.

All 10 winning

addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000

international

emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as

category 2

winners in this year's Annual FreeLotto . Draw.



Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total

pay out of

$2,000,000 dollars (two million dollars) only. The
following

particulars

are attached to your lotto payment order:



(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11

(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76

(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK

(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK



Please contact the under listed claims officer via email

and/or phone

as soon as possible for the immediate release of your

winnings:



Mrs anne lawrence

Chief financial Director

The Freelotto . Company

anne_lawrence@london.com

grey4@myway.com



N.B: Steps to claim your prize

Note that your prize have been insured to the real value of

$2,000 000

00 million dollars hence no deduction can be done.



1. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence

with the

claims officer.



2. Winners should send to claim officer account detail or

address where

they want their prize paid or sent.



3.Winners must send their names, address, and telephone

number and

means of identification (international passport or drivers

license) to

claim officer to process immediate payment of their prize.



Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until

prize are

claimed to avert incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous

elements.



Once again on behalf of all our staff,



CONGRATULATIONS!!!



Sincerely,

Promotions Manager

The lotterypost . Company



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The lotterypost . Awards is proudly sponsored by the

Microsoft

Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers,

Mackintosh and a

conglomeration of other international IT companies. The

freelotto . Internet

draw is held once in a year and is so organized to

encourage the use of

the Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say

that over 200

Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries

worldwide.



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We also encourage you to visit our website at

www.lotterypost.com . and

take your chance to play and become part of our daily

winners. Millions

are won on a daily basis on one of the world?s most

famous lotterypost

service.

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