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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: robinson micheal <lotterycoordinatorworld@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:34:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!!!!!!!!!!


RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/FINAL NOTICE We are pleased to announce today,7 July ,2005 winners of the GRANDPREMIUM PROMO LOTTERY,THE NETHERLANDS/INTERNATIONAL,PROGRAMS held 23, may 2005.Your winning email address,is attached to Ticket number 023-0148-790-459,with serial
number:5073-11 drew the lucky numbers 43-21-54-37-10-43,Batch Number:390-742-01-04 and consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category. You have been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$3.000.000.00 credited to file REF NO.AMXXL/25041238013/03. This is from total prize money of US$51,000,000.00 shared among the seventeen international winners in this category.Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a collation of email addreses of all frequent internent users from all over the world as part of International Promotions Program conducted bia-annually. CONGRATULATION!!!!!.

Your funds is now deposited with our bank and would be transferd to you as soon as we hear from you. Due to mix up of numbers and names you are advised to keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your designated account or send to me your prefarence as regards your desired method of transfer of your funds to you. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.To begin your claim, please contact your claims agent VIA EMAIL,FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER, OOSTVOORNSESTRAAT 25B 3082 SK,ROTTERDAM NETHERLAND with the above informations which should include your FULL NAMES,AGE,SEX,OCCUPATION,MARITAL STATUS,NATIONALITY,CONTACT POSTAL ADDRESS, TELEPHONE AND FAXNUMBER,via this email address,For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice.Remember,all prize money must be claimed not later than! 5th August ,2005.Thereafter, all funds would be returned as unclaimed to the NETHERLAND GOVERNEMENT. NOTE:In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers on your correspondences with your agent officer. Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
MR WILLSON DICKSON,
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
GRANDPREMIUM PROMO LOTTERY,
THE NETHERLANDS.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of any of our winners will result to disqualification.
Regard,
Robinson....










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