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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: SurvivalForum.com <>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 03:30:35 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: *Congratulations* You have emerged Royal Lottery Prize Winner

Reply to: royallottuk@yahoo.com




Name of Sender: royal_lotterydraws
E-Mail Address of Sender: royallottuk@yahoo.com

Message:
ATTENTION:

Dear Prize winner,

ROYAL LOTTERY UK conducted its final draws, participants were selected through a Computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 names/email addresses of individuals and Companies from Africa,
America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceanic as part of our international promotions program. You emerged as one of the grand draw prize in the Category A and are there
for entitled to a sum of £3,500,000.00 (three million five hundred thousand Great Britain pounds only).

You/Your company, attached to ticket number 8522-5-556, with serial number 22-38 drew the lucky numbers 13-72-75-09 (12) and consequently won in this Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of £3,500,000.00 (three million five hundred thousand Great Britain pounds only), which is the winning payout for Category A winners. This is from the total prize money of £7,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize
money to a designated account of your choice:

Mrs. Linda Green
FINANCE DIRECTOR
EQUILIBRIUM FINANCE COMPANY U.K.
TEL: +44 704 011 8776
FAX: +44-870-135-7720
Email: claims@equilibriumfinanuk.net


You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or fax
within a week of receiving this notice.Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your reference and Batch numbers.
Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your correspondences with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: RLUK/3345/7121/09
BATCH NUMBER: R6/A442-77

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank youfor being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
ROYAL LOTTERY UK
89 Birchwood Boulevard,
Birchwood.
Warrington WA3 7QH UK


N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of thewinners will result to disqualification, this is to avoid double claims. Contact your Claims agent immediately.

Sponsor message:
This Mail is sponsored by http://www.SurvivalForum.com.

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