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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: "Alice Anderson.(www.freelotto.com)" <freeloto-winners@strompost.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: gabrielisaac@madrid.com
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:56:35 +0200
Subject: www.freelotto.com Winners Claims Notification.

THE FREELOTTO ® COMPANY
HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS.
www.freelotto.com

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the FreeLotto ® draw held the 30th of March.2005. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as
category 2 winners of the FreeLotto ® Draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of $750,000 pounds (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars only). The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

Please contact the under listed claims officer in Madrid-Spain via email and/or phone as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

Mr. Gabriel Isaac
The Freelotto ® Company Claims Agent In Spain.
(Optimum Credit Commission Spain.)
TEL: +34635-155-643
FAX: +34911-412-654,+34940-463-585
Email:gabrielisaac@madrid.com

N.B: Steps to claiming your prize.


1. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims officer.

2. Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address where they want their prize paid or sent.

3.Winners must send their names, address, and telephone number and means of identification (international passport or drivers license) to claim officer to process immediate payment of their prize.

Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until prize are claimed to avert incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Alice Anderson.
Promotions Manager
The FreeLotto ® Company

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The FreeLotto ® Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers, Mackintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies. The freelotto ® Internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say
that over 200 Million Dollars are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

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We also encourage you to visit our website at www.freelotto.com ® and take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners. Millions are won on a daily basis on one of the world’s most famous free lotto service.

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