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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: "UK LOTTERY" <uklottery_notify@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:15:00 +0000
Subject: winnings notification

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.


The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#980) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on Tuesday 28th of
june, 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:12-18-22-33-43-48-25, which
subsequently
won you the lottery in the 1st category.You have therefore been approved to
claim a total sum of £141,022 (one hundred and forty one thousand,and
twenty two pounds) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a
total cash prize of £9,009,105 shared amongst the (9) lucky winners in this
category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.
This
promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In
view of this, your £141,022 (one hundred and forty one thousand and wenty
two
pounds) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. 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 measure to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be
warned. To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
MR :Peter Wright.
email: nationaluklotterygames@yahoo.com

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

Anti-fraud resources:

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