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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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Please note about this email:

• It is a fake lottery scam (7 typical phrases found).
  
• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "INFOUK NATIONALLOTTERY" <info@unitedkingdompromotions.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:07:50 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

 O Box  1010 Liverpool L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM   NOTIFICATION DEPARTMENT



REFERENCE NUMBER: UK/9420X2/68
BATCH NUMBER:074/05/ZY369
TICKET NUMBER: 56475600545 -188

We happily announce to you the draw (#996) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online
Sweepstakes International program held on Sat 30th July 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
56475600545 -188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:
07-20-22-23-34-37 (bonus no.38),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 £184,515 (One hundred and eighty four
thousand, five hundred and fifteen pounds sterling) in cash credited to
file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of  £1,845,150
shared
amongst the (10) 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 £184,515 (One hundred and eighty four
thousand, five hundred and fifteen 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 claim 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 claims agent
Mr philip  walker

Tel: 44(0) 703-194-9929

Email: agentphilipwalker@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
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank
you for being part of our online promotional lottery program.
Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes

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