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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: "robert hanes" <roberthanes76@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: robert.hanes@winning.com
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:22:56 -0700
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

British Raffle Nominees(BRN):
28 Tanfield Road,
Croydon, London
United Kingdom

Ref No.: BRN/421ONI/05
Batch No.: BRN/23/136-A


WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the BRN programs held in the month of
December 2005 in London.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: BRN-033 6123 234 with Serial
number: 005404 drew the

lucky numbers: 31 06 26 13 35 07 11, which subsequently won you the lottery
in the 3rd category. You

have therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of £450,000 (Four Hundred
and Fifty Thousand

Pounds) in cash credited to file BRN/F/75543340/05. This is from a total
cash prize of 30 Million

pounds, shared amongst the Ten (10) lucky winners in this category. This
year BRN Program Jackpot

(Lotto 6/49 and Lotto Super 7) one of the largest ever British Lottery.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in

Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your £450,000 (Four
Hundred and Fifty

Thousand Pounds) would be released to you.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of
your funds to you as soon

as you make contact with them.

All participants were selected randomly from the internet through computer
draw system and extracted

from over 100,000 websites. This promotion takes place annually. For
security reasons, you are advised

to keep your winning information confidential untill your claims is
processed and your money remitted

to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is a part
of our precautionary

measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by
some unscrupulous person(s).

To file for your claim, please contact UK National Lottery Coordinator

Mr. Patrick Herand,

Coordinator, UK National Lottery

1 Plough Place, London EC4A 1DE

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference
numbers and batch numbers

on the top right corner in any correspondences with us or our designated
agent. Congratulations once

more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank you for being part
of our promotional lottery

program.

Sincerely,

Tracy Campbell

Zonal Coordinator

NB: All claims are to be made within 14 days from confirmation of this
message.

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