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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: "nancyscott" <nancyscoott@handbag.com>
Reply-To: cllnfrrll@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:28:37 -0700
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!

NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMO
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITES 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND
www.lotto.ie


Ref: NAS/941OYI/04
Batch:04/06/MA34
WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the National Lottery Promo International
program, held on the 8th June 2005 in Dublin Ireland. Your email address
was attached to ticket
number:77770064638 with serial number:67345/04 drew the lucky numbers 12-8-9-11-12-5,
which subsequently won you the lottery in the second category. You have therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of 2,000,000.00 Euros (Two million, euros)
in cash
credited to file pl/233376899/04. This is from a total cash prize of 60 Million
Euros,shared among the first thirty (30) lucky winners in this category.
In view of this,your money would be released to you by our Bank firm in Europe
.

Our European agent (Reality Agency) will immediately commence the process
to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as they are contacted. All
participants were selected randomly from World wide Website through computer
ballot system extracted from over 100,000 companies and individuals. This
promotion takes place annually. 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 claimming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please
bewarned.

To file your claims, please contact our agent:
Agent: The Reality Agency
Name: Mr Nick Sherman
Email: officeofthewinningdepartment@yahoo.co.uk

OR

Chief financial Director
The National lottery Promo
Collin F.
Tel :+ 44 703 194 794 1
email; cllnfrrll@yahoo.co.uk

To avoid unnecessary delay and complications, Please quote your ref/batch
numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program

Yours sincerely,

Miss Judith Cole.
Public Relations Officer
National Lottery Promo

N.B:
1.All claims are nullified after 10 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 dis-qualified.
5.A mandatory 500 Euros is charged to process all claims.
_______________________________________________________________________

The National lottery promo Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,the
Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell Computers,Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other
international IT companies.The National lottery internet draw is held quarterly
every year and is soorganized 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.lotto.ie 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
The National lottery Promo.


___________________________________________________________

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