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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: =?us-ascii?Q?lotto=20winnier1=20claim=20office?= <lottowinnier1@seznam.cz>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:04:46 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?congratulations=21=21=20winning=20notification?=


FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
REF NUMBER: #46
BATCH NUMBER: 953/INL
RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION
http://www.lotto.nl


Dear Lucky Winner,
RE: ELEKTRONIK LOTTO PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of Lotto International Netherlands programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an
advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a winner in the category

\"A\" with the following:
Ref Number: PC 390 ES 214
Batch Number: 26371545-LNI/2005
Ticket Number: PCP 002 871
lucky numbers: 2 9 19 37 44 45 33 rood


Won the lottery in the 2nd Category.You have therefore been approved for
a lump sum pay out of 2,500,000.00 Euros(TWO MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO ONLY)


Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised
to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category \"A\"
winners with the information below:
Mr. Nixon Vincente.
Remittance Department Director,
nixon_vin1@yahoo.com


NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days. After this
dateall unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember
to quote your reference information in all correspondence.
You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public
especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a
case of double claims will not be entertained).Members of the affiliate
agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.


Thank you and congratulations!!!


Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Lynn Hoodjunk
Games/Lottery Coordinator.
Lotto International Netherlands
www.lotto.nl
Address:
Laan van Hoornwijck 55
2289 DG Rijswijk


This email may contain information which is confidential and/or
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individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended
recipient,be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of
the contents is prohibited.If you have received this electronic
transmission in error,please notify the sender by telephone or return
email and delete the material from your computer

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