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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: "free lottery" <vavilov2005@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:58:23 +0000
Subject: Winner!!!!!!!!

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
105b WOODHILL ROAD
WOOLWICH
SE18 5HW
LONDON
www.freelotto.com

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky
winners in the FreeLotto draw held on the 22nd of
August 2005. All 10 winning addresses were randomly
selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international
emails.Your email address emerged alongside 9 others
as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual
FreeLotto Draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a
total pay out of £1,000,000 (one million british pounds)
only.The following particulars are attached to your
lotto payment order:

(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

Please contact the underlisted chief financial director as
soon as possible for the immediate release of your
winnings:

Mr.Dennis Johnson
Chief financial Director
The Freelotto Company
TEL: 44 7040104101
Fax:44-870-129-9859
pay_center@financier.com

Please note the steps to claiming your prize;

1.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence
with the chief financial director.

2.Winners should send to the financial director account
details or address where they want their prize paid or sent to.

3.Winners must send thier names,address,telephone number
and means of identification (international passport or
drivers licence)to the chief financial director to process
immediate payment of their prize.

4.And due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask
that you keep this award strictly from public notice until
your claim has been processed and your money remitted to
your account. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants
of this programme.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Sophia J. Wallace
Promotions Manager
The Lotto company
UK & Europe

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