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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: "Wendy Johnson" <nationallotteryinco@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:43:29 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Your timely response is highly appreciated.

!!NATIONAL LOTTERY INCORPORATE!!

RE: YOUR TIMELY RESPONSE IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED"B".

This is to inform you of the result of the just concluded final draws of
the National Lottery Incorporate promotion programme.

The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 200,000
e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced
automated random computer selection from the web. No tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of
five winners in the category "B" with the followings:

Ref Number:NLI/D1108/61-T54
Batch Number:NLI DDL/9910
Ticket Number:01233/53UY
Serial Number:MA00
Lucky number:77 26 040
You, as well as other winners are to receive a cash prize of
$2,500,000.00.(TWO MILLIONS, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) each from the
total payout.

Your prize awards 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 begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to
contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "B" winners
with the informations below:

MRS.KIMBERLY WALTON
GLOBAL CONSULTING,
TEL:0031 627 540 705. Email: globalconsults@excite.it


NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days. After this date
all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote
your reference information in all correspondence.

You are to keep all winning information away from the general public
especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case
of double claims will not be entertained).

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,

WENDY JOHNSON (MISS)

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