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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: "NEW ZEALAND LOTTERIES COMMISSION" <arielsbertis@universia.edu.ve>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:55:50 +0600
Subject: NEW ZEALAND LOTTERIES COMMISSION

New Zealand Lotteries Commission,
NZLC Wellington Corporate Office
Level 3, 54-56 Cambridge Terrace
PO Box 3145 Wellington,
New Zealand.
Telephone: (64) 01 827 1000.
Facsimile: (64) 01 352 1787.
(New Zealand Lotteries is an affiliate of Overseas Subscriber
Agents ): P.O. Box 43330 AH's-Gravenhage NL-2504 Netherlands.

Sir/adam,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
This is to inform you of the result of the New Zealand Lotteries draws held
on the 15th, August, 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to Serial #: NZLC01103938151 and e-mail code:
917926-8 drew a cash
prize of €1,000,000.00, in the 2nd class of the draws. You will be paid
€1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros).
Because of incessant mix up in cash prize pay-outs, we will advise that you
to keep your winning
information confidential until your money (€1,000,000.00) has been fully
remitted to you by our
accredited Agent (Deutsche bank, Amsterdam-Netherlands). Please, you must
strictly adhere to this
measure to avoid loss of your cash prize - this measure is put in place to
forestall abuse of this program
by other participants.
It's also important to inform you that these draws were conducted
privately. Winners were selected
through an internet ballot system, from extracted e-mail addresses of over
60,000 people around the
world. This private program is sponsored and promoted by New Zealand
Lotteries Commission.
Congratulations once again for this lucky win. We hope you will use part of
your money to participate in
our next draws; the jackpot cash prize is €85million.
Remember, you must claim your cash prize not later than 10 working days
from today. If you fail to claim
your cash prize after the expiration of this deadline, the unclaimed cash
prize will be forfeited by you - we
will include it in our next sweepstake.
Please, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to
quote your personal/winning
information (Serial #: NZLC01103938151 and e-mail code: 917926-8) in all
your correspondence with
our paying bank.
Congratulations once again from all members of New Zealand Lotteries
Commission.
To get your cash prize released to you immediately, please kindly contact
our Paying Bank ( Deutsche
Bank, Amsterdam-Netherlands) Send them the following:
(i). Your names.
(ii) Your contact telephone and fax numbers.
(iii) Your contact Address.
(iv) Your winning numbers (Serial #: NZLC01103938151 and e-mail code:
917926-8).
(v) Quote amount won.

Send the information to:
Contact person: Klaus Funk.
Director: Private banking and Foreign Remittance,
Deutsche Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
E-mail:custservicesinf@netscape.net
Tel: 31 621-916-606.
Fax: 31-847-504-579.
Congratulations once again.

Yours in service,
Trevor Hall.
CEO/Lottery Coordinator.
e-mail : arielsbertis@mails.de

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