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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: "MRS VAN SANCHEZ" <chellchy@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: smi_cl@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:33:30 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATION

EURO AFRO ASIAN SWEEPSTAKE LOTO,
REF: EAASL/206/8320054/887
BATCH: 9075/08/LCF
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today the 22nd of March 2005 of winners of the BONO Loto's International program. Your
details attached to ticket number 275-1085-8862-005, with serial number 8786-35 drew the lucky winning 3 19 25 26 37 38 You have there-fore been approved for a lump sum pay out of Three million, ninety two thousand, four hundred and ninety four euros, forty one cents only, (3,092,494.41Eur.)in cash credited to file Ref Nº: EAASL/206/8320054/887. and you can as well search our
website to see that you are one of the lucky winners of this month <http://onlae.terra.es/sorteos.asp>
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names from Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zea land, South and North America as part of our International promotion programs.
CLAIMS NOTIFICATION.
Your fund is now deposited with an International finance and security house insured . Due to the mix up of some names and numbers, we ask
that you keep this award notification 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 multiple claims or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.
To begin your claim, please contact your International claims agent,
COLE SMITH,
Client service manager,
Fountain Trust finance & security
TEL: + 44-7040118296
EMAIL: smi_cl@yahoo.co.uk
For timely processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice, remember to contact your claims agent
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please do remember to quote your Reference and Batch numbers in all your correspondences with your claims agent. Further-more, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being part of our promotional programs.
Sincerely,
MRS.VOS SANCHEZ
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 claims agent.

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