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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: "dr mithel" <mithel01@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:56:34 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!!

THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, LUCKYDAY LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL .PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: GSL/21256003/39
BATCH: 94/0017/IPD

AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today 13th september 2005
of your selection as one of the five winners of the promotional Golden
Strike Sweepstakes Lottery Netherlands held recently as part of our
BONANZA.You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
US$500,000.00(five hundred thousand, Dollars only) in cash credited to
file REF NO.GSL/21256003/39.

We in the Golden Strike Sweepstakes Lottery Netherlands is by this program,
launching our model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed
to satisfy the cravings of the ever growing number of participants in our
various lottery programs.With funds accrued exclusively from previous draws,
payouts to all winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in record
time. After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database
of 300,000 emails all participants were selected through a computer ballot
system from the Middle East,Asia, Africa, Canada,Europe, USA and South
America as part our International Promotions Program, which was conducted in
view of launching ourselves into the Sweepstakes Industry Worldwide and
zoning all participants by their respective continents from across the
globe, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of
the winners of the Grand Draw prize.

To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings,the transfer of your prize is
to be handled by our Prize Transfer agents. You are to contact our agents
by email or fax within a week of receiving this notice. Please find full
contact details below:

MR CLEMENT GIDEON,
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
TEL:0031-630-907-500
FAX:0031-847-539-641
EMAIL: emailluck@netscape.net
www.luckyday.nl

Also find all other relevant winning lottery information below:

Ref No: GSL/21256003/39
Batch No:94/0017/IPD
Zonal Draw No: GSLA2-405
Serial Draw No: 2090
Lucky no:845/452

Remember, you must contact your claim agent not later than a week of
receiving this notification. 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 in very one of
your correspondences with your agent.Furthermore ou are seriously advised to
keep all winning lottery nformation and numbers from the public in line with
our company security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program by unscrupulous individuals.

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of
our Promotions program.

Yours Sincerely,

Rene Van Michel,
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR.

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