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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: "MARIA STEPHEN" <mariastephen_5@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 03:12:45 +0000
Subject: ROLLS ROYCE 100TH ANNIVERSARY EXTRAVAGANZA.






ROLLS ROYCE 100TH ANNIVERSARY EXTRAVAGANZA.
65 BUCKINGHAM GATE
LONDON SW1E 6AT,
UNITED KINGDOM.

Good day,

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement
of winners of the 100TH ANNIVERSARY AND EXTRAVAGANZA
of Rollce Royce on behalf of Honourable Charles Rolls and
Henry Royce.This extravaganza was held on the 1st of july
2005.20 lucky winners were chosen and Your e-mail address
attached to ticket number 63538953216-435 with serial
number 172-488, which consequently gave you this opportunity
of having a lump sum of one million pounds stellings
(£1,000,000,00) ,Congratulations.
All participants in this Extravaganza were selected randomly
through a computer ballot system drawn from over 40,000 companies
and 50,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engines
and web sites.It is a wonderful surprise!!
Please keep your winning information confidential until
your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you
The Payment of our winners will be grouped into two payment zones.
( Europe, And Africa}
Due to unscrupulous acts by participants of this program,
and as part of precautionary measures to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this Extravaganza by some persons,
we have resulted to pay winners only by bank wire transfer.
To enable us file in your name for payment, please do provide
the following informations:
1.YOUR FULLNAME:.....................................
2.YOUR SEX:.................................................
3.YOUR ADDRESS:.......................................
4.YOUR FAX NUMBER:...................................
5.YOUR OCCUPATION:...................................
6.YOUR COMPANY'S NAME:..........................
7.YOUR AGE:.................................................
8.YOUR REF NUMBER:(TICKET AND SERIAL #)...................................
Provide the following immediately so we can start processing your payment.

Do immediately contact The promotions Manager:
jsmith_rollsroycepromo@yahoo.co.uk
Phone no:+447031948651
for due processing and remittance of your money to a designated account of
your choice.

Congratulations!

Sincerely,
Maria stephen
Rolls royce Promotions secretary.

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