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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: euromillions_online@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:49:00 -0700
Subject: EUROMILLION ONLINE LOTTO WINNERS NOTIFICATION

EUROMILLION ONLINE LOTTO
Burdette House
Buckingham St,
London,
WC2N 6DU
TEL:(+44) 07031847342
FAX: 448700117617

Congratulations, you have just won £350,000(three hundred and fifty
thousand pounds) in the satellite software email lottery in which e-mail
addresses are picked randomly by software powered by the Internet through
the world wide website.Your email address was amongst those chosen this quarter
.this is part of our middle of year bonanza .this promo is proudly sponsored
by the Euro Million lottery you can log on to our website for more information
concerning our entire lottery promo http://www.lottery.co.uk/euro-millions.htm

Your email address,attached to ticket number 15-23-30-37-40-07-09, with
serial number 9284-30 drew the lucky numbers 40-07-09,and consequently won
the lottery in the "A" category.You have therefore been approved for a lump
sum pay out of £350,000(three hundred and fifty thousand pounds).

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 £350,000(three hundred and fifty thousand pounds)will
be released to you by our security firm in Europe. Our European agent will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds
as soon as you contact them. All participants were selected randomly from
World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 companies and individual email addresses on 12th of August,2005.


This promotion takes place annually. 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 by some unscrupulous elements.

To file for your claim,Please contact the underlisted claims Agent as
soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings.Furthermore,
all Winning Funds should be claimed not latter than 30th of August,2005.
After this date, all Unclaimed Funds will be returned to the Euro Million
lottery board for the next sweepstake.

Barr:Alan Rolf
Fiduciary Agent
EUROMILLION ONLINE LOTTO
EMAIL:alanrolfe@uk2.net
EMAIL:alanrolfe_assoc@onlineverification-clearance.com

This promotion takes place annually. 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 by some unscrupulous elements.

N.B:Steps to claiming your prize;

1.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.

2.Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address where they
want their prize paid or sent.

3.Winners must send their names,address,telephone number and means of identification
(international passport or drivers licence)to claim officer to process immediate
payment of their prize.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

Mr James Beckham
Promotions Manager :

The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments may be legally
privileged and confidential.If you are not an intended recipient,you are
hereby notified that any dissemination,distribution or copying of this e-mail
is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please
notify the sender and permanently delete the e-mail and any attachments immediately.
You should not retain, copy or use this e-mail or any attachment for any
purpose, nor disclose all or any part of the contents to any other person.

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The Euro Million Online Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers,Mackintosh and a conglomeration
of other international IT companies.The Euro Million Online Lotto drews
is held twice yearly and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet
and computers worldwide.We are proud to say that over 200 Million Dollars
are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.


___________________________________________________________

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