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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: "Prime Securities" <primesecurities2001@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 12:23:59 +0000
Subject: Congratulations

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

We are pleased to inform you, THAT AS A RESULT OF OUR RECENT LOTTERY DRAWS
HELD on the 15th of March 2005.Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number: 27511465896-6410 with serial number 4204-777 drew lucky numbers
5-21-23-34-61-72 which consequently won in the 1st category. You have
therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 2,500,000 (EUROS)
(Two MILLION, Five hundred thousand EUROS)

Note that All participants in this lottery program have been selected
randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 200,000 companies
and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engines and web
sites. This promotional program takes place every year, and is promoted and
sponsored by eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates of
Microsoft Inc and other corporate organizations. This is to encourage the
use of the internet and computers worldwide.

For security purposes and clarity, we advise that you keep your winning
information confidential until your claims have been processed and your
money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. We look
forward to your active participation in our next year USD50 million slot.

You are requested to contact your claims clearance officer as named below,
to assist you with the processing of your winnings and subsequent payments.

All winnings must be claimed not later than one month after the date of this
notice. Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
remember to quote your reference number and batch number in all
correspondence. Furthermore,should there be any change of address do inform
our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional
program.

NOTE: YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE BELOW 27 YEARS OF
AGE.

Sincerely yours,

Miss. Janet Freiburg,
(LOTTERY COORDINATOR)
Reply to the claiming agent
Email:mary_cole6@yahoo.de
CLAIMS AGENT:
MRS Mary Cole

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