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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: "PLANET ONE LOTTERY" <planetonelottery@netscape.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:02:13 -0400
Subject: P.O.L LOTTERY WINNINGS NOTFICATION.

ATTN:THIS IS YOUR WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY
"A" WINNER Planet One Lottery.
AZ/TPQ/35-A775382896 :

It is our pleasure to inform you that you have emerged
as a Category "A" winner of the Planet One Lottery.
CONGRATULATIONS! You are entitled to a
prize sum of one million(1,000,000.00) British Pounds. Reference number
for your prize is AZ/TPQ/35-A775382896 , ticket number
A/78-4661.
As a category "A" winner, you have been selected from
a total number of 350,000 names drawn from Asia,Africa,
Europe, Middle East and America. After the computer
ballot of our International Promotions Program, only
10 winners emerged in this category and therefore
are to receive payouts of one million(1,000,000.00) British Pounds from the
total ten million(10,000,000.00) British Pounds for First category winners.
To immediately collect your prize,please contact your claims
agent assigned to all category A winners.Find below his contact
information.

NAME: William Petrus(Category A representative).

TEL: +31638668232

EMAIL: williampetrus@netscape.net

In your best interest, you must initiate contact within
one week of receipt of this
correspondence.Your claims agent will handle all financial matters with
regards to
claiming your prize.
You are also advised to send a copy of this email,by
email,to your claims agent Mr William Petrus,
when contacting him.You are to keep all lotto information from the
public as we will not entertain cases of multiple
claims processing or compromise the privacy and
security for all winners.
Please be informed that you will be required to make a NON DEDUCTABLE
legal documentation charges of
1,000 pounds to enable our legal department acquire Naturalization
papers from the Court prior to award payment policy as required by
the paying Financial Institution.
Please be informed that this promotion is focused
towards the encouragement and the use of microsoft
worldwide,and is only drawn from email addresses
of microsoft users worldwide.

We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that
you participate in any of our international programs
in the nearest future.

Sincerely,

Tracy Anderson.
Promotions Manager,
Planet One Lottery United Kingdom.
+447821553138.

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