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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: flashlotto_draw62@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 01:52:52 +0200
Subject: FINAL NOTICE OF AWARD NOTIFICATION

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA.
UNIVERSAL BUILDING,132-133
PARK HURST,BALFOUR-UNIT 1440
JOHANNESBURG,GAUTENG 2001.

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

FINAL NOTICE OF AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 07/09/2005, of
winners of the GLOBAL FLASH MEGA LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA/INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMS, held on 20th of November 2004 as part of our promotional
draws. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa,
America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part
of our electronic business Promotions Program. You qualified for the draw as a
result of you visiting various websites we are running the e-business
promotions for.

You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 100-309-7482, with serial
number 513-10 drew the lucky numbers 2, 9, 22, 23, 24, 30 + 5 and consequently
won in the Second Category.You have therefore been approved for a lump sum
pay out of US$420,000.00. This is from the total prize money pay
out of US$14,000,000.00 shared among the sixteen lucky winners in the Second
category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

To avoid mix up of winning 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
program.

To begin your claim, please contact your claim agent immediately for
due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account
of your choice.;

MR. RICHARD BALOYI.
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
Universal Building,132-133
Park Hurst,Balfour-Unit 1440
JOHANNESBURG,GAUTENG 2001
SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL:+27-83 561 9859
FAX:+27-11 484 7297
EMAIL: rich_baloyi2005@yahoo.com

Remember, you must contact your claim agent not later than 24th
September 2005. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers provided below in
each of your correspondences with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: FLS-ZR39-825P-4
BATCH NUMBER: 74-263-BBN

We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our end of
year (2005) high stakes US$1.3billion International Lottery.

Congratulations once again from all our staffs and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER


Please do not reply to this mail box. Contact your claims agent
through his e-mail contact: (rich_baloyi2005@yahoo.com) above.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result in disqualification.

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