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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: National Lottery <nationallottery@webprogramming.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:33:49 +0200
Subject: Congratulation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
Customer Service/Foreign Claims Dept.
Ref: IE/04/20X2/67
Batch:0732/0890/ZY367
http://www.lotto.ie

Notification.

We happily announce to you the draw (#938) of the NATIONAL LOTTERY/Sweepstakes International
Promotions held on the 24th June 2005.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
5647-5600-543-121 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:05-16-22-25-27-30-33 which
subsequently won you the lottery in the second Category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of €1,350.000:00 (one million three hundred and
fifty thousand Euros) credited to file ref no. IET/9023118308/03. This is from the total cash prize of
€8,000,000:00 shared among the fifteen(15) lucky winners in this category.

All participants for the free online lotto version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through
a Computer draw system of individual and corporate organizations extracted from over 9000,000,000
email Addresses worldwide. This promotion takes place on a quarterly basis.

Your lucky winning numbers fall within our Canadian booklet representative's office in the United
Kingdom as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your €1,350,000:00 would be released to you
by any of our payment offices in Europe. To file for your claim, please contact the fiduciary agent.


Contact official:


STANDARD SECURITIES & FINANCE
OFFICIAL : MR.HOUTEN ROLAND
Tel : +31-620-550-889
Fax : +31-205-248-434
E-mail : standardsecurities@financesource.com

with the information below:

*name :
*tel no :
*fax no :
*reference no :
*batch no :

You're Winnings Certificate and all other relevant Documents for payment accreditation will be prepared
After proper authentication and verification of your Claims file.

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 measures to avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Congratulations once more and thanks for being part of our promotional lottery program. You are advised
to contact your paying agents to process your application and receive your funds.

Regards,,

Mrs Roseline Norbot
Promotion Coordinator.


N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not
reply to this mail. Contact your claims agent.(TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY)

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