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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 (13 typical phrases found).
  
• It lists mobile phone numbers or call redirection numbers (no bank, lottery, etc would use mobile phones to take customer calls).
  

Fraud email example:

From: "UK National Lottery Co-ordinator" <uknl_notifier6@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 08:05:01 +0000
Subject: UK-NL/Enlisted/Drawn

CONGRATULATIONS!....
The National Lottery
28 Tan field Road,
Croydon.London
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Fax:+44-87-1243-4901

Congratulations, you have just won £1,400,000.00 (ONE MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED 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 promo is proudly sponsored by  THE  NATIONAL LOTTERY.
 
Your email address attached to ticket number 023-56678230954,drew from the lucky numbers 5-22-26-40-42-43-44,batch number 6858/UK and consequently won the lottery in the "A" category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum pay of £1,400,000.00 (ONE MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS), which has been credited to  file REF NO. SGIL/763276/03. This is from the total prize money of £20,000,000.00 which is to be shared among the forty national winners in
categories C with serial number: IL/FLW/12-C033721192.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 100,000company email addresses and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe North America, Africa and Asia as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted weekly.

Your prize award has been insured in your name and is ready for claims. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised to expeditiously contact our licensed and accredited claim agent (date of this email inclusive) for the processing of your winning and remittance to your designated bank account after all statutory obligations have been satisfactorily dispensed with.
 
All prize money must be claimed not later than TWO weeks from notice. After this date, all funds will be forfeited to the pool without further notice.

For security reasons, Winners are advised to keep their winning details/information from the public to avoid fraudulent claim (IMPORTANT) pending the transfer/claim by Winner.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

MR. ALTON WILLIAMS
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER/FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
EMAIL: fiducial_agent177@uk2.net
Tel: +44-703-1847283
Tel: +44-703-1849416
Tel+31-617728176
Fax:447092868191
Fax: +44-87-1239-7880
Fax:+31-205-248-085

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference and batch number in every correspondence with your agent.

Reference number: UK/9420X2/68

Batch number    : 074/05/ZY369

Furthermore, if you have changed your email address, do contact your agent, notifying him of the change.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program.

Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
 

Yours faithfully,
 

Maxwell P. Richard.
Online coordinator for UK ONLINE
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
Open 7 days 8am-11pm
Fax:+44-87-1243-4901

NB: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL CONTACT YOUR CLAIMING
AGENT ON
E-mail: fiducial_agent177@uk2.net

***"YOUR CHANCE TO WIN BIG" ***

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