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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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Please note about this email:

• It is a fake lottery scam (9 typical phrases found).
  
• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "uk national lottery" <lottery@uk2005world.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:12:26 +0000
Subject: 2005 Winning Notification

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

REF Nº: EGS/2251256003/01

BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE

National U.K Lottorey wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on 10th June, 2005. Your email account have been picked as a winner of £9,001,406 POUNDS ONLY.

This results is now released to you on  15th June, 2005 and your email address attached euro millions  in the A Category bonus ball 07,11, 12, 37, 42, 45, and bonus ball 04 to check your results online click on this link http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do  participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses users.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program,For the release of your winning,kindly contact your claims agent in British Lottery Head Quartersm Mr Kane Handerson. kane_handerson@yahoo.com  you are to quote your lucky number for confirmation on your winning.

All winning must be claimed not later than 28th June, 2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be retured to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

You are therefore advised to give the following informations to your claim's agent via email which is kane_handerson@yahoo.com

1. Full name and address.

2. Country.

3. Tel and fax number.

4.Occupation.

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. kees_walter,
Executive.(Euro Lottery Intern.)

Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).
Copyright © 2005 British Lottery International

MRS JULIE VAN HANS,

VICE PRESIDENT

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