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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: Equilotto <equilotto@katamail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:57:39 -0000
Subject: Lotto Winning

From: The director of the Prize Award Department

Reference number:EL/20856740034/04

Batch number 335/6025/SDD


Re: Award Notification of Final Notice

We are pleased to inform you of the release on the
30TH November 2004, the Result of the EQUILOTTO INTERNATIONAL, UK promotion
program held on the 30th November 2004. Your email address
attached to the ticket number 187-328285-732 with
serial number 02-14-26-26-44-11 & Lucky Numbers as follows

Number 1 = 27
Number 2 = 46
Number 3 = 11
Number 4 = 22
Number 5 = 87
Number 6 = 47
Number 7 = 37

which consequently
won the lottery in the 3rd category. You have
therefore been awarded the lump sum of
£3,158,100.00(three million one hundred and fifty
eight thousand, one hundred British pounds sterling)
in cash credited to file number AE/7203630/04 .This
is from the total cash prize off £78,684,000.00(Seventy
Eight million, six hundred and eighty four thousand
British pounds sterling) which is being
shared among Seventeen international lucky winners in
this category!

Your funds are deposited with a bank in United kingdom,
which will be insured In your name once you contact
the assigned agent. Due to a mix up of some names
and numbers, we strongly recommend that you keep this
award top secret from the public notice until your
claim have been processed and the money remitted to
your account. This is a part of our security protocol
to avoid double claiming and unwanted scams of this
Program by other participants.

All participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from 12,500,000 email addresses from
all over the world as a part of our International
promotional program, which is done twice annually. We
hope that with a part of your prize, you will take
part in our end of year high Stake #1.3bn lottery. To
avoid fraud and scams, and to begin your claim, Please
contact only your assigned agent, Richard Smith;
Foreign Service Manager of APEX SUBSCRIBER AGENTS
via email on apex_sa@katamail.com or fax +44 870 1344188

For processing and remittance of your money to a
designated account of your choice. All prize money
must be claimed no later than 14days from the date of
this notice, as after this date, all funds will be
returned to EQUILOTTO UK, INTERNATIONAL as
unclaimed.



In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please quote your reference and batch
number in every correspondence with us, or your agent.
Furthermore, if you have changed your email address,
do contact your agent to notifying him of the change.


Congratulations once more for and on behalf of all
members of my staff And thank you for being a part of our promotions
program.


Yours sincerely,

Francois Harington

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