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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: "kerry smith" <info@offcialmailserver-euromillion.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 02:17:17 +0000
Subject: EUROMILLION ONLINE LOTTO WINNERS NOTIFICATIONS

EUROMILLION ONLINE LOTTO
Burdette House
Buckingham St,
London,
WC2N 6DU
TEL:(+44) 07031945393
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 owered 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 09-29-35-40-41-01-06, with
serial number 9284-30 drew the lucky numbers 41-01-06,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 26th 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 20th of September,2005.After
this date, all Unclaimed Funds will be returned to the Euro Millionlottery
board for the next sweepstake.

Barr:Miller Cole
Fiduciary Agent
EUROMILLION ONLINE LOTTO
EMAIL:millercole_3655@uk2.net

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
dentification(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 Kerry Smith
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 draws 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 Dollarsare won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

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