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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: "irish lotto" <irishlotto_27@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:57:13 +0000
Subject: take note

IRISH LOTTERY COMMISSION :
FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR


INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY COMMISSION
AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION


51b dames Street
Dublin2,
Dublin,
Ireland.


We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky
winners in the irish lotto draw held on the13th of
december. 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 category 2 winner
in this year's Annual irish lotto Draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total
pay out of 3,000,000 euros (three million euros) only.The
following particulars are attached to your lotto payment
order:

CLAIM FILE NUMBER: ILC/772145897731
BATCH NUMBER : BS/0050074547007
REF. NO. LDESP/1282664

Please contact the underlisted claims Agent as soon as
possible for the immediate release of your winnings:
Mr John Williams
TELEPHONE:+ 353-863-320-369
OR.
+353-876-270-691
EMAIL:lottoagent1@o2.pl
for remittance of your winnings
N.B:Steps to claiming your prize;

1,Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence

2,Winners should send to claim officer account detail or
address where they want their prize paid or sent.

3,Winners must send thier names,address,telephone number
and means of identification (international passport or
drivers licence)to claim officer to process immediate
payment of their prize.
with the claims officer.

4 you can visit our website @ www.irishlottoplus.com

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified.
Deadline for the processing of this claims is one month
after notification.

Sincerely
MRS ALICIA MARES
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR

The irish Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the
Microsoft Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell
computers,Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other
international IT companies.The irish Lotto internet
draw is held once in a year and is so organized to
encourage the use of the internet and computers
worldwide.We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros
are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

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