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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: "LORENZO FORTUNE LOTTERY PROMO" <globalnet2000@whipmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:45:35 +0200
Subject: FORTUNE LOTTERY WINNER

WINNING NOTICE
FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT


DEAR SIR/MADAM,

RESULTS OF DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the draws of LORENZO LOTTERIA SPAIN
You have been selected as one of the five winners of Lorenzo Lotteria
Madrid-Spain a computer ballot draws and thus will be a privileged recipient of the grand draw prize of 705.366,87euros (SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX EUROS EIGHTY SEVEN CENT ONLY).. Addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our International Promotions Program.
We in the Lorenzo Lotteria Spain is by this program, launching our model
computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of the evergrowing number of participants in our various lottery programs.
With funds accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to all winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in record time.
After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database of 300,000 emails and zoning all participants by their respective continents from across the globe, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the Grand Draw prize.

You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 3322/6181-22, with serial
number 92-71 drew the lucky numbers 3, 17, 23, 31, 40, 46 (19).


CONGRATULATIONS!

Your funds are now deposited with our correspondence bank, a reputable bank in the Spain, insured in your name.
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 award 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 or unscrupulous acts by perticipants/nonparticipants of this program.

We also wish to bring to your notice our mid year (2004) high stakes where you stand a chance of winning up to EUR40.Millions, we hope that with a part of your prize you will participate.

Please contact your claims agent immediately, to begin your claims process.

CLAIMS AGENT.
Dr. Kenny Wood
FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
DESTINY FINANCE S.A
MADRID, SPAIN.
MAIL: kennywood202@netscape.net
MAIL: Kennywood202@whipmail.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice.

Remember, You are to contact our agents by email and within 2 weeks of
receiving this notice. After this date, all funds will be returned unclaimed.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification find below your reference and Batch numbers. Note that you are to forward this email to the finance firm in your first correspondence with them, by email.

REFERENCE NUMBER: GLSP/6181/11-02/04
BATCH NUMBER: 1811-NL

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


Sincerely,
MR.ALFONSO DIEGO RAJOY
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
LORENZO LOTTERY SPAIN,
CALLE BRAVO MURILLO 205
28001 MADRID, SPAIN.



N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Anybody under the age of 21 is automatically disqualified. Do not reply to this message contact your CLAIM'S AGENT inside this email...

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