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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: "THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY" <lottofree4u2005@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 17:20:09 +0100
Subject: THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITES 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND
www.freelotto.com <http://www.freelotto.com>
We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the Free Lotto draw held on Saturday 14th of May. 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 in this year's Annual Free Lotto Draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
(£500,000) Five Hundred Thousand Euros 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: FL09622SP
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/SP

Please contact the under listed claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

Mr Paulo Norman
Chief financial Director Dublin Branch.
The Free lotto Company
Email: paulnorms00@netscape.net

Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Yours Sincerely,
John Priestly
Promotions Manager
The Free Lotto Company
UK & Europe
N.B:
1.All claims are nullified after 30 working days from today.
2. Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the claims officer.
3. Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addresses.
4. All winners under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.

_______________________________________________________________

The Free Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers, Mackintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies. The free lotto Internet draw is held quarterly every year and is so organized to encourage the use of the Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that Over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.
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

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam