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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: "ELizabeth Fauerbach" <elfauerbach@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:30:48 +0000
Subject: YOUR CLAIMS

PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENTFROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
DEAR SIR/MADAM
THIRD CATEGORY WINNER
After a successful completion of the third category
draws of EGOLI LOTTERY, held on 28TH AUGUST 2005, we are
pleased to inform you of the official announcement
today, 22ND SEPTEMBER 2005, that you have emerged one of
the winners of the EGOLI LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMS, which is part of our promotional draws.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 25,000 names/email addresses of
individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,
Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New
Zealand as part of our International Promotions
Program.
You/Your company, attached to ticket number
459-5-6382, with serial number 14-83 drew the lucky
numbers 27, 03, 13, 42, 25, 60, (20), and consequently
won in the Third Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of
US$1,900,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout
for third category winners. This is from the total
prize money of US$5,700,000.00 shared among the Three
international winners in the Third category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with COMET FINANCE &
INSURANCE LTD, insured in your name. To avoid mix up
of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you
keep this award strictly from public notice until the
entire process of transfering your claims has been
completed, and your funds remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this
program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year
(2005) high stakes where you stand a chance of winning
up to US$1.3 billion, we hope that with a part of your
prize you will participate.
Please contact your claims agent immediately,to begin
your claims process:

MR DAVIES KELVIN
CLAIMS DEPT. MANAGER,
COMET FINANCE & INSURANCE LTD.
EMAIL: dv_kelvin@yahoo.com


For due processing and remittance of your prize money
to a designated account of your choice.
Remember, you must contact your claims agent not later
than 4TH OCTOBER 2005. After this date, all funds will
be returned as unclaimed.
NOTE: To avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
please remember to quote your reference and batch
numbers provided below in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: CF-L765-14
BATCH NUMBER: 779-PF
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
EGOLI LOTTERY SA.
#7 LE-ROUX AVE,
ALBERTON, JHB.
SOUTH AFRICA.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification. Please do not
reply to this mail. Contact your claims agent

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