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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: "sussan white" <promotions_uklottery@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: claimsagent_uklottery@postmaster.co.uk or claimsagent_uklottery@hotmail.co.uk
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:01:11 +0200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
U.K. LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL,
UNITED KINGDOM

REF NO: UKLI/2590X1/05
BATCH NO: 42/25/2204

ATTENTION: Sir/Madam,

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of winners of the U.K LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
Your email address was attached to Ticket Number 564 75600545-188, with serial number 5388/05 drew with lucky Numbers 43-11-44-37-10-43, and
consequently you Won the lottery in the 3rd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay Of £550,000.00 (five hundred and fifty thousand United Kingdom pounds,) in cash credited to file REF NO: UKLI/2590X1/05. This is from total Prize money Of £55,000,000.00 United Kingdom Pounds shared among the ten International winners in this category.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Website through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe.
In view of this, your £550,000.00 (five hundred and fifty thousand United Kingdom pounds,) would be released to you by our payment center in London.
Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the Release of your funds as soon as you contact him with your details;
FULL NAMES.
CONTACT AND VALID ADDRESS.
TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS.


You are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
To begin the processing of your claim, please contact our Agent at;

claimsagent_uklottery@postmaster.co.uk / claimsagent_uklottery@hotmail.co.uk

or
Mr. Collins Raymond
Tel.No.+ 44 703 1844 1111

For due processing and remittance of your Prize, do remember to quote your Reference and batch numbers in every correspondences with our agent.
Remember, all Prizes must be claimed not later Than Two weeks from the day of this announcement. After which all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
Congratulations! From all members of staffs
Sincerely,

Susan White.
Zonal Co-coordinator
(Promotions Manager)

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