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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: joyericoffice2@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 01:37:13 +0100
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION:

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw of the Euro - Afro Asian Sweepstake
Lottery International programs held on the 1st of OCTOBER 2004 in
London..Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545 188 with Serial
number
5388/04 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7,which subsequently won
you
the lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore,been approved to
claim
a total sum of US$2,500,000.00 (Two million, five hundred thousand,
United
StatesDollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This is from
a
total cash prize of US $125 Million dollars, shared amongst the first
Fifty(50)
lucky winners in this category.
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 US$2,500,000.00 (Two million, five hundred
thousand,United
States Dollars) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in
London.Our
agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release
of
your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site
through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.This
promotion
takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep
your
winning information confidential till 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 elements.Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the
below
details for processing of your claims.
AGENT: Mrs joy ERIC
Email address;(joy_eric@linuxmail.org)


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