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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: "MR.MARTINS KWAME" <martinskwame021@tiscali.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: martinskwame@walla.com
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:28:39 -0700
Subject: YOUR ARE A LUCKY WINNER

FROM: THE PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
ECOWAS STANDARD TRUST LOTTO
ORGANIZATION - LAGOS NIGERIA
WEST AFRICA.


Congratulations Category A prize winner! You have been
selected as one of two winners of the Ecowas Standard
Trust Lotto, West Africa computer ballot draws and thus
will be a privileged recipient of the grand draw prize
of US$4,500,000,.00 (Four million five hundred
thousand United States Dollars only). Winning File
Reference number for your prize is ESLO/LNWA/
61-812087; ticket number 003-214-39/A.

We in the Ecowas Standard Trust Lotto Organization, West
Africa is by this program,launching our model computer
balloting lottery draws,developed and designed to
satisfy the cravings of the ever growing number of
participants in our various lottery programs. With
funds accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts
to all winners are guaranteed and will be transferred
in record time.

After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an
initial database of 300,000 emails and zoning all
participants by their respective continents from
across the globe, we produced an extensive list from
which you have emerged as one of the winners of the
Grand Draw prize.

To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings, the
transfer of your prize is to be handled by our paying
officer in one of the branches of our bank the Standard
Trust Bank ,WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE STANDARD TRUST BANK.You are adviced to contact our paying officer MR.ZUBBY AMACH of the STANDARD TRUST BANK by email:zubbyama_stb@uymail.com
within a week of receiving this notice. Please find
full contact details below:

MR.MARTINS KWAME
STANDARD LOTTO ORGANIZATION
HEAD QUARTERS
LAGOS NIGERIA


Also find all other relevant winning lottery
information
below:

Draw Serial No: 35/751346
Batch No: 06-A852
Zonal Draw No: A2-003
Grand Draw No: 12099
Winners Certficate No:E021453

You are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery
information and numbers from the public in line with
our company security protocol to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous
individuals.

Please direct all further correspondences and queries
to your respective category Prize Transfer handlers.

Congratulations once again from the Worldwide Premier
Lotto family.


Sincerely,

MR.MARTINS KWAME
STANDARD LOTTO ORGANIZATION
cc:martinskwame@walla.com

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