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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: "Notification Uklottery" <national_lottery@winningcentral.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:11:02 +0000
Subject: The Uk National Lottery(Online Winning Notification)

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 (No.996) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday 9th of
July, 2005. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188
with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 07 22 23 34 37 (38
Bonus Number) which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category,i.e
match 5 plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£750,500 (Seven hundred and fifty thousand,five hundred pounds sterling
only) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash
prize of £1,833,286 shared amongst the (13) 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 £750,500 (SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS
STERLING) 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 William Smith
Phone: +44 7031 846 084
Email: ukwinningfudiciary_smith@yahoo.co.uk

You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings
and also get a prize breakdown:-
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Sir R. Lloyd.
Online coordinator
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY


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