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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: uknotification@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:45:42 -0700
Subject: ***WINNING NOTIFICATION ***





The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369


WINNING NOTIFICATION :
We happily announce to you the draw (#975) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online
Sweepstakes International program held on Wednesday 27th of April, 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:02-15-20-24-32-47(bonus no.29), which
subsequently won you thelottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus.You
have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £135,256(One hundred
and thirty five thousand and two hundred and fifty six pounds sterling) in
cash credited to fileKTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of
£946,792 shared amongst Seven(7) lucky winners in this category i.e Match
5 plus bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.
This promotion takes place twice weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon.
In view of this, your £135,256(One hundred and thirty five thousand two hundred
and fifty six pounds sterling)would be released to you by any of our payment
offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part
of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary
agent:
Mrs Susan Holmes
Email:s_holmes2000@yahoo.co.uk.
You can go to our online result site to confirm the
value of your winnings and also get a prize breakdown:-
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do
Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program







___________________________________________________________

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