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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: uklottointernational@tiscali.it
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:06:28 -0500
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=0D=0ALucky=20Winner=21=21=21?=

The U.K. National Lottery
12 Bridge Street,
Staines Middlesex TW18 4TP
United Kingdom.
Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/04
Batch: R3/A312-59

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#918) of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes
Internationalprogram held on Saturday October 9th
,2004.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number:56475600545188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew
the lucky numbers: o6.17.22.27.30.34.(26) Bonus Ball
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category
i.e match 6 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of £ £5,300,000(Five million,Three Hundred-Thousand,
pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/04.
This is from a total cash prize will be given to you
as the one(1) Jackpot lucky winner in this category i.e
Match 6 plus bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer
draw system and extracted from over 100,000
unions,associations, and corporate bodies that are
listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our European bookletrepresentative office in
Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of
this, your£5,300,000(Five million,Three Hundred-Thousand,
pounds sterling)would be released to you by any of our
payment offices in Europe.

To file for your claim,and send along your winning
notification to our fiduciary agent:

Mr. Mark Spencer
Email: uknationallotteryagent@yahoo.co.in
Fax: +44-8701351471


Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Henry Bernard.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.


N.B: Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your
Claims agent immediately.


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