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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: "HALLMARKSTAKES" <HALLMARKSTAKES080@HANDBAG.COM> (may be fake)
Reply-To: HALLMARRKCONSULT@YAHOO.CO.UK
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:06:59 +0100
Subject: YOUR PRIZE

HALLMARK LOTTERY PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
9Chaucer House
Churchill gardens
London, SW1V 3DW
United Kingdom.

In Conjunction with The National Organizing Committee of the2006 FIFA
World Cup. FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006organisationskomitee
Deutschland koniginstrabe 23, 80539 Munchen.

RE: WINNING NOTIFICATION..........CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

This is to informyou of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY BALLOT
INTERNATIONAL/ WORLDGAMING BOARD held on the 28th of August 2005.
Due to the mix up ofnumbers, the results were released on the 8th of
September 2005. Your email address attached to ticket number:
4156189324 under agent ID: 110, which subsequently won you the lottery
in the 3rd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of
$1,000,000.00(one million dollars) in cheque drawn
in your favour as beneficiary and covered with HIGH INSURANCE POLICY.

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your
winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and

your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some
participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system

drawn from only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies and
3,000,000individual email addresses and names from all over the world.

To begin your lottery claim, please contact our agent below who has
been appointed for the processing of your claim with the email address
below:

CONTACT NAME: John Kasper, England, United Kingdom.
EMAIL: hallmarrkconsult@yahoo.co.uk
Hallmarkconsult@sify.com

Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 2 weeks of
receiving this notification. After this date all unclaimed, funds will be

included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary
delays and complications please remember to quote your WINNING NUMBER and

AGENT NUMBER in all correspondence, and if there is any change of address

do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Dorothy Michaels

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