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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: "euro milliom lottry award"<happy@carsten.org.es>
Reply-To: <eulenagency_bis@luckymail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:50:16 +0200
Subject:


EURO MILLION LOTTERY SELECTION DRAWS

Internet user

Congratulations!!!, This is to notify you that this e-mail address was enter during the Euro Million Lottery selection Draw 2009 and has won the sum of
750,550 In the third catigories of which your email address is attached to Ref Nº: ESP/WIN/008/06/10/MA & Batch Nº: EURO/1007/444/606/09;
Serial Nº: 45407; and Promotion Date: 24th July 2009.

The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 500,000 email addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random online selection from the web. No tickets were sold.
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For claim please contact the below agent for immediate process of your claim.
Remember to quote these numbers below for verification by the Company,
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Your Reference Number: ESP/WIN/008/05/10/MA
Your Batch Number: EURO/1007/444/606/09. And you should include:
Your Full Name:
Your Home Address:
Your Sex:
Your Age:
Your Occupation:
Your Nationality:
Your Telephone Number:
Your Mobile Number:
Your Fax Number:
GRUPO EULEN SECURITY COMPANY S.A.
Contact: MR PEP GOMEZ (Your Assigned Agent)
Tel: +34.634.104.632
Fax: +3 4.918.294.123
Email: Grupo_eulenagency@comerciale.es

Bear in mind that prizes will strictly be remitted to winners that officially file in for their claim within the given time frame.

Congratulations once again from all our staff.

Note: All Won Prize must be claimed/ cleared not later than. 20/08/2009. After this date, all other winnings will considered as UNCLAIMED and returned to ministerio de Economia Y Hacienda

Best regards,
Dr. Jonathan Antonio Gomez.
Euro Million Lottery Co-ordinator Madrid.

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