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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: "smith stanford" <smithstanford@sandsassociate.net>
Reply-To: smitstanford@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:08:33 +0000
Subject: Final Winning

It is our pleasure to inform you that you have emerged as a winner in the
FLATBALLPROMO held on Monday 16th of June 2005, where your email address
attached to ticket number 025-1146-1992-750, with serial number 2113-05 drew
the lucky numbers 13-15-22-37-39-43, and consequently, you have therefore
been approved for a lump sum payout US$1,000,000.00 credited to file REF NO.
GWPL/67-AO91652004. This is from total prize money of US$3,000.000.00 shared
among the three international winners in the category A. Be inform that all
participants in this Lottery Program were selected randomly through a
computer Ballot System drawn from over 200,000 Companies and 30,000,000
individual email address from all search engines,

To begin your claim, you should, in your own interest, expedite contact with
your assigned claims agent, Mr. Phillip Conde at phillipconde1@yahoo.co.uk
with the verification of any emergent winners not later than one week after
this date or your winnings will be returned as unclaimed. You are also
advised to send a copy of this email, either by fax or email, to your claims
agent, when contacting him. Please find all other relevant winning lottery
information below:
Ref No: GWPL/67-AO91652004
Batch No: 14/0017/IPD
Zonal Draw No: GSLA2-003
Grand Draw No: 12099

Sincerely,
Mr. Stanford Smith
Promotions Manager,
Flat Ball Promotions (U.K)
1 Kelvedon Drive, St. Andrew, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

NOTE:
Please do not reply to this email, contact your claims agent. Due to the mix
up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from
public notice until your claim has been processed and your winnings made
available to you as this is part of our security protocol, we will not
entertain cases of multiple claims processing or compromise the privacy and
security for all winners. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification. You are automatically disqualified
if you are below 18 years of age.

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