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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: worldmeritpromotion@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:28:27 +0200
Subject: congratulations!

WORLDMERIT INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
QUEENS 21B
XBH1 LONDON.U.K

AWARD NOTIFICATION / PROCESSING ADVICE:

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement
today, 22th JULY,2004 of winners of the
SCIENTIFIC GAME PROMO LOTTERY; BRITISH
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM held on the 22TH JULY, 2004.
Your email address attached to ticket number
18-19-34-37-47023-56678230954, with serial number
5073-11 drew the lucky numbers , and consequently won
the lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore
been approved of a lump sum pay out of POUNDS
1,200.000.00 (ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS)
credited to file REF NO. SGIL/763276/03. This is from
total prize money of POUNDS 24,000,000.00 shared among
the TWELVE international winners in 1st-3rd
categories.

All participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from 25,000 company email
addresses and 30,000,000 individual email addresses
from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, North
America and Asia as part of International Promotions
Program, which is conducted annually.


Your fund is now in custody of a financial/Securities
company. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names,
we ask that you keep this award strictly confidential
until your claim has been processed and your money
remitted to your account.
To receive your claim, please contact your file/claim
officer:

Mr. CHRISTAIN MIKE
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER
LONDON. U.K
Email: xtainmike@netscape.net

All prize money must be claimed in ten working days.
After this date, all funds will be
returned as unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please remember to quote your reference
and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences
with your agent.
Furthermore, should there be any change of your
address, do inform your claims agent as soon as
possible.
Congratulations once again from our team of staff and
thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is AUTOMATICALY
DISQUALIFIED.
Please include your private telephone and fax numbers
while replying.


Sincerely,
BAILEY HARVEY
Lottery Cordinator

__________________________________________________
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