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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: castlecordinator@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:19:07 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WINNING=20NOTIFICATION?=

INTERNATIONAL-LOTTERY.CO.UK
Castle International Lottery
The Marina Offices
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England.
(Customer Services)
11th March 2005
Ref:CIL/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY30

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#954) of the CASTLE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on Tuesday 15th February 2005
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serial
number
5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:
11-18-20-23-32-48(bonus no.) which subsequently won you the lottery in the
2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to
claim a total sum of £300,000(Three hundred thousand pounds sterling) in
cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £1,200,000,00 shared amongst the first
four (4 ) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.All participants
for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites
through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations,
and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place
weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.In view
of this, your £300,000(Three hundred thousand pounds sterling) would be
released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release
of your funds as soon as you contact him.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential
till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever
manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary
measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
**************************************************************
MR PETER LOUIS
Email:peterlouis@lycos.co.uk
*************************************************************
Note,all winning in this first category must be claimed not later than 31st
of March,2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the
next stake. Congratulations and Goodluck from me and members of staff of
the CASTLE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for CASTLE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
Sweepstakes International Program



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