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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: "uknational lottery" <uklotterypromo@ukinternationalpromo.org>
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 02:03:47 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION...........UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

Uk National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
UK Lottery International
An Affiliate of Prime International
Arena Complex,Storey's Gate, London
I.P.P Award Dept
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
Dear Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, of winners of the UK
International Lottery were our winners were listed. You or your company
email address was attached to ticket number 564-75600545-288, with serial
number 56475600545188 drew the lucky numbers37-13-34-85-56-42, and
consequently in
category C (third category). You have therefore been approved for a lump sum
pay out of US$2,500,000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO. REF:
PLI/4080318306/04. This is from total prize money of US$15,000,000.00 shared
among the six(6) international winners in the category B. All participants
were selected
through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names from
Australia, New Zealand, America, Asia, Europe, Africa, USA and North America
are part of our International Promotions Program, which is conducted
annually.

CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with a Finance and Security House and insured in
your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep
this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed
and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming. We hope with a part of
your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes
US$1.3 billion International lotto.
To begin your claim, please contact your claims officer immediately:
UK Lottery claims department.

Contact Person: Mr.Smith Moore
Email: agentsmithmoore@excite.com and mr_smithmoore@yahoo.co.uk

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice. Remember, you must contact your claims officer not
later than 1 (one) month after this date, all funds will be returned as
unclaimed. All correspondences to Mr.Smith Moore, by email, should have this
email sent along with it and also, your email address to which this email is
sent, should be clearly and boldly written in your response. NOTE: In order
to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference number in every one of your
correspondences with your officer. Furthermore, should there be any change
of your address, do inform your claims officer as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our
promotions program.

Yours Sincerely,
Hariet Booker,
The Director of Promotions,
UK Lottery International.

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