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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: Admin Account BBOFNGR <admin@bbofngr.com>
Reply-To: henry_hadley@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:25:40 -0500
Subject: winning notification

FROM: EUROMILLIONS INTERNATIONAL PRIZE CLAIM CENTER
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF:EE/EGS/16-DD2751144 AND BATCH NO:53/1014/NBM.

GREETINGS,

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today 28th of February, 2005, of winners of THE INTERNATIONAL LOTTO PROGRAMS held on the 24th of January, 2005 as part of our FIRST QUARTER of the year bonanza.

You or your company, attached to ticket number 034-1416-4612-750, with serial number 6521-11 drew the lucky numbers 31-51-22-24-39-43, and consequently won the lottery in category B. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$3,500,000 in cash credited to file REF:EE/EGS/16-DD2751144 This is from total prize money of US$17,500,000.00 shared among 5 winners in this category. All participants were selected through lucky email and number generator system (computer balloting system) from the internet randomly drawn from over 100,000 COMPANIES and 50,000,000.(Individuals private/personal) email addresses in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North and South America, Middle East and Africa.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with PREVENT COMPANY, a finance & security House secured in your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. Also we wish to inform you that your ticket number also qualified for the draw for the GLOBAL JACKPOT that will be held within the next one month. You will be informed of the outcome if successful. We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes US$1.3 billion International Lottery.

To begin your claim, please contact your fudiciary agent;MR HENRY HADLEY
EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY U.K.
LONDON, ENGLAND
TEL: +44-704-011- 5676
EMAIL:henry_hadley@yahoo.co.uk

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

Remember, you must contact your claims agent not later than 30th of March, 2005. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed and included in the next stake. All correspondences to MR. DUNCAN FERGUSON, either by fax or email, should have this EMAIL sent along with it and also, your FULL ADDRESS, YOUR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE and your EMAIL ADDRESS to which this email is sent, should be clearly and BOLDLY WRITTEN IN YOUR RESPONSE with your claims agent.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
A copy of your lucky Prize winning certificate and insurance will be sent to you by your claim agent prior to the transfer of your fund by our paying bank.

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

Sincerely,

CAROLINE JENSEN.
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
THE INTERNATIONAL LOTTO U.K.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your fudiciary agent

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