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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: "Annita Johnson" <annitajohnson007@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:06:38 +0000
Subject: from annita

THE National LOTTO COMPANY

UK HEAD OFFICE

SUITE 23-30, LION TOWERS

CENTRAL LONDON

ENGLAND


Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners
in the euro Lotto draw held yesterday the 18th 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 category 2 winners in this year's Annual Free Lotto Draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out
of #1,500,000.00 pounds (one million ,hundred thousand pounds) only. The
following
particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(I) File Reference number: EFL/04/736207152/NL

(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76

(iii) Batch Number: FL09622UK

Please contact the under listed claims officer via email:
byrondavid12@yahoo.co.uk
as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

Byron David.

Chief financial Director

The National Lotto Company

Email: byrondavid12@yahoo.co.uk


N.B: Steps to claim your prize



1. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.

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

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

Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until prize are claimed
to avert
incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements your winning
certisficate would
be issued to you upon your compliance.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

Annita JOHNSON's.

Promotions Manager


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