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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: "Tuckwell Chase Limited" <zonal.admin3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tuckwellchaseltd@inMail.sk
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:21:30 +0000
Subject: Dear winner

FROM:
THE MANAGER,
LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
TUCKWELL CHASE LOTTERY LTD.

DEAR WINNER,

FINAL CATEGORY PROMOTIONAL DRAW RESULTS:

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,the results of our
computer ballot draws of Tuckwell CHASE Lottery Ltd,UK.We are happy to
inform you that you have emerged a winner under our final category
draws,Which is a promotional draws.The draws were held on 10TH OCTOBER, 2005
and results are being officially announced today.Participants were selected
through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names/email addresses of
Individuals and companies from Africa,America, Asia,Australia,Europe,Middle
East, and Oceania as part of our International promotions Program.

Your winning is attached to ticket number 80,23,50,120,5050,with serial
number 20-0001, drew the winning numbers and consequently won in the final
Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum payout of $1,000,000
USD (One Million United Sates Dollars),which is the winning payout for final
Category Winners. This is from the total prize money of $6,000,000 USD
shared between six (6) International winners in the final category.

Congratulations!
In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any
kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your winnings strictly
from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been
completed, and your funds remitted to your account.This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double Claiming/unscrupulous acts by
Participants/non-participants of this program.

We also wish to bring to your notice our new-year 2006 Premium Stakes draw
where you stand a chance of Winning up to $5M USD that will be shared
amongst 10 winners worldwide, we hope that with a part of your prize you
will participate.Please contact your claims agent immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated bank account
of your choice.

MR. PHILLIP GREEN
FINANCE MANAGER,
TUCKWELL CHASE LOTTERY LTD,
EMAIL: tuckwellchaseltd@inMail.sk

Contact your claims agent by email immediately before all funds will be
returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your ticket and
batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.
TICKET NUMBER: 80,23,50,120,5050
BATCH NUMBER: 20D20

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

Your's Sincerely,

JOHN COMBS,
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
TUCKWELL CHASE LOTTERY LTD,UK.

N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of winners will result to
disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail.Contact your claim agent
immediately.

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