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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: "Alice Thomas" <althomas@lompocconnect.net>
Reply-To: althomas@ny.com
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:32:55 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
UK OFFICE
SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND
www.freelotto.com

Dear Winner,

My name is MRS ALICE THOMAS, and on the behalf of FREE LOTTO COMPANY OF UNITED KINGDOM,I wish to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the FreeLotto draw held on the 4th November, 2005. All 10 winning addresses
were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a 2nd category winner in this year's Annual FreeLotto Draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of 1,000,000 GBP (One million GBP only).The following particulars are attached

to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

MR.MAURICE BRUCE
WALKER FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD.
14 BRIDGE ROAD
STOKESLEY
MIDDLESBOROUGH
CLEVELAND
TS9 5AA
UNITED KINGDOM
TEL: +44-704-0128235
FAX: +44-707-502-3567
EMAIL: walker_financial@myway.com

Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

MRS. ALICE THOMAS


This email notification is auto-generated its contents are valid for only two weeks and it is unmonitored so do not reply.
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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam