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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: "Brenda Smith" <brenda_smith@portafree.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 05:51:12 +0100
Subject: WINNING NORTIFICATION

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

DEAR Prize Winner,

RESULTS FOR PROMOTIONAL DRAW.

NATION WIDE LOTTO UK, wishes to inform you of the results of It's
Promotional draws held on the 15TH of march 2005. We are happy to
officially inform you that you have emerged a winner under our Third
Category Draws, which is part of our promotional draws. Participants
were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 40,000
names/email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa,
America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand
as part of our International Promotions Program.

Your Lottery Claim is attached to ticket number 44-3-2, with serial
number 708-4, and drew the lucky numbers 05 07 18 27 31 36 (46) to
emerge one of the third category winners. You have consequently been
awarded a lump sum pay out of £1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred
Thousand Great Britain Pounds) in cash, which is the winning payout for
Third Category winners. This is from the total prize money of
£9,000,000.00 shared between 6 international winners in the category.

CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with HERITAGE FINANCE LTD 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 participants/nonparticipants of this
program.

Therefore, you are advised to begin your claim
immediately hence, all prizes awards must be claimed
and disbursed within 20days of this notification as
elapse of the scheduled "End of Claim" date will
authorized funds withholding for redirection as
abandoned/ unclaimed without notice.

Note: To enhance the processing of your claim by our
accredited claim agent, you are advised to officially
introduce yourself to the claim agent and also
provide them with your valid means of your personal
identification with a copy of this awards notification
for references.

For easy reference and identification, Find below your
reference and Batch numbers, remember to quote these
numbers anytime you are ask to by your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: 3NW-3
BATCH NUMBER: FN-112

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

MR. DAVID JAMES,
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER,
HERITAGE FINANCE LTD.
Email: jja_david1@yahoo.co.uk

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification.


Sincerely,

MRS. BRENDA R. SMITH,
LOTTERY COORDINATOR

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