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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: "TRANS LOTTERY AGENCY." <trans20055@netscape.net>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 18:09:11
Subject: CLAIM YOUR WINNING AWARD NOW.

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARDS DEPARTMENT
Your name attached to a ticket number 009-24554-750 with serial number
2113-05 drew the lucky numbers 2-12-22-24-34 which consequently won the
lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore been approved for a lump
sum payout of €500,000.00(Five hundred thousand Euros) in cash credited
to the file reference number: TLOT/14556478/ES3. This is from a total cash
prize of €14.000,000.00 (Fourteen Million Euros) shared among twenty
eight (28) international winners in this grand category.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your funds is now deposited in a suspense account with our paying Bank
insured to your name waiting remittance into your bank account.
Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you keep this
award from public notice until your claims has been processed and your money
remitted to your nominated bank account is this is part of our security protocol
to avoid double claiming or unwarranted abuse of this program by the general
public.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000 names and E-mail addresses from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe
and North America as part of our international lottery program which we conduct
twice every year. We hope that with part of your prize, you will part-take
next year in our high stakes €1.3billion International Lottery.
To claim your Prize, please contact your claims agent
**************************************************************
MR.John Mark.
E-mail: jmark2005@netscape.net
Foreign Services Manager, Payment Process and Release Order Department,
TRANS LOTTERY AGENCY.
**************************************************************
for processing and remittance of your prize funds into your designated bank
account.
Note that all prize funds must be claimed not later than 31th of May,2005.
After this date all funds will be returned as unclaimed for the next
sweepstake.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please endeavor to
quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence with us or
your claims agent. Furthermore, should there be any change in your address,
do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once again from all members of our staff and thanks for being
part of our promotions program.
Regards,
Mrs Linda lu
(CLAIMS CO-ORDINATOR)

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