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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: "genevive mitch" <genevive_mitch@unilotprogram.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:09:09 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE WON!!

Date: 28/07/2005
Ref: 564062826
Batch: 8067492802/188
Winning no: UC6411/LPRC
CONGRATULATIONS
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release
on the 25nd of July 2005 from the Universal Lottery
programme. Which is fully based on an electronic
selection of winners using their e-mail
addresses.Your name was attached to ticket number;
564062826 8067492802 serial number 89413237112 This
batch draws the lucky numbers as follows
4-13-55-48-34bonus number 17,which consequently won
the lottery in the second category. You here by have
been approved a lump sum pay of US$1,000,000.00 (ONE
MILLIONDOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW
47509/02 from the total cash prize of
US$8,000,000.00 shared amongst eight lucky winners
in this category. All participant were selected
through a computer balloting system drawn form Nine
hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,
Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East,
Africa and Oceania as part of our international
promotions program which is conducted annually. This
Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate
of some multinational companies as part of their
social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities
where they have operational base. Further more your
details(e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in London, as indicated in
your play coupon and your prize of US$1,000,000.00
will be released to you from this regional branch
office in London. We hope with part of your prize,
you will participate in our end of year high stakes
for US$1.3 Billion international draw. HOW TO CLAIM
YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our fiducial agent,Mr.
Mitcheal Walter through,mitcheal_walter@zwallet.com to
file for your claim . Please quote your reference,
batch and winning number which can be found on the
top left corner of this notification as well as your
full name, address and telephone number to help
locate your file easily. For security reasons, we
advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is
processed and your prize released to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of
this programme by non-participant or unofficial
personnel. Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by
10th of August 2005; otherwise all funds will be
returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity .
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Best Regards Carol Smith(co-ordinator)
PLEASE DO REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS
AGENT:mitcheal_walter@zwallet.com ANY BREACH OF
RULES ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL
RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.

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