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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: "OVERSEAS STAKE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL UK." <ippadg03@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:37:31 +0000
Subject: ALL WINNERS INFORMATION.

OVERSEAS STAKE LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL UK.
BATCH NUMBER : AT-040SB06-03

Attention: Winner

We are pleased to inform you that as a result of our recent lottery draw
held on the 18th December 2004, your email address attached to ticket number
27522465896 with serial number 652-662 draw lucky numbers 7-14-18-23-31-45
which consequently won the 2nd category for a lump sum pay out of
1,000.000.00 (Euro) (ONE MILLION EURO).

Note that all participants in this lottery program have been selected
randomly through a complete ballot system drawn from over 20,000 companies
and 30,000 individual email addresses from all search engine and website.

This programme takes place every year and is promoted and sponsored by
eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei, Bill gate of Microsoft inc
and other Corporate Organizations. This is to encourage the use of the
internet worldwide.

For security purpose and clarity, we advise that you keep your winning
information confidential until your claims have been processed and your
money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claim.

As a result of too many winners we are treating on hand and also making ways
on how they can catch their winning money, therefore you are requested to
contact our clearance officer in Benin Republic West Africa to assist you
with your winnings and subsequent payments. All winning must be claimed not
later than one week after the date of this notice.

Below is the contact of our clearance officer in Benin Republic West Africa.

Name: Parks William
Email:parkswilliam_osl@yahoo.com
Phone num: 00-229-97-08-69-05
Fax num: 00-229-97-64-89-25

To avoid delay in claiming your winning fund you are therefore needed to
forward to our west african zonal co-ordinator the below information.

1)Your full names and address
2)Country of origin/home address
3)Tel/fax line.
4)Your ticket num and serial number.

Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delay and complications, remember
to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our program.

Please do not respond to me rather to Mr. William

Your Sincerely,
Elizabeth Mcknight.
(LOTTERY SECRETARY)



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