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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: "Kate Albert" <katealbert@freeukpromotion.net>
Reply-To: thomas99wright@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:07:47 +0000
Subject: congratulations!

Dear Winner,

WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION
We are officially informing you of the result of the
Lottery Winners
International
programs held on the27th of JULY 2005 as part of our
promotional
programs for
the year 2005. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number
77007742781005-
18721 with reference number 414-3721060 drew winning
numbers
7-00-71-00-
66-49 and credited to batch number 121cfc, which
consequently won in
the 3rd
category via our electronic ticket as stated above.
You have therefore
been
approved for a pay out of 1,800,000.00 (One Million
Eight Hundred
Thousand
Pounds).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Total funds have now been deposited and insured with
our affiliate
security firm
for transfer into your nominated bank account either
by means of wire
transfers
through any of our correspondent banks or any other
means suitable to
you. We
also advice that you keep your winning information
very confidential as
our
security policy demands to avoid double
claims/impersonation and
unwarranted
abuse of this program by some individuals.

All participants were selected through a random
computer ballot system
drawn
from over 800,000 company and 1,000,000 individual
email addresses and
names
from all over the world. This promotional program
takes place annually
and we
hope with part of your winning you will take part in
our next year 20
Million
Pounds International Lottery. To file for your claim,
you will be
contacting our
accounts department authorized to verify and process
your claims for
your total
payment (You will receive more information upon your
acknowledgment of
this
email).
This lottery is promoted and sponsored by software
corporations and
other
private organizations to help individuals generate
fortunes which would
encourage them to expand their business frontiers
thereby creating more
opportunities and assisting with humanitarian concerns
within their
immediate
environment. Please Note that winnings must be claimed
not later than
30th of
SEPTEMBER 2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will
be
included in our
subsequent
program coming up later in 2005. In order to avoid
complications always
quote
your reference number in all correspondence.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do
inform us as soon
as
possible. Congratulations from our organization and
thank you for being
part of
our promotional program.
N.B: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified from
this program.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs Kate Albert
FREE LOTTERY PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
74 CRANBOUNE ROAD
LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary
agent:
Thomas Wright
thomaswright@freeukpromotion.net

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