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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: "rose dickson" <national_lotteryuk@nationalwinnersworld.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:42:36 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION!!

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.</P>
REF Nº: EGS/2251256003/02
BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD
RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE
National U.K Lottorey wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address
ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on 1st June,
2005. Your email account have been picked as a winner of SIX HUNDRED
THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY.This results is now released to you on 11th Aug, 2005
and your email address attached in the A Category bonus ball 03,06, 07,
17,30,34, and bonus ball 08, to check your results online click on this link
participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses users.
Be advice to 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,For the release of your winning,kindly contact your claims agent in
British Lottery Head Quarters you are to quote your lucky number for
confirmation on your winning.
All winning must be claimed not later than 6th Sept, 2005. After this date
all unclaimed funds will be retured to European Union Treasury as unclaimed.
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please
remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.
<P>You are therefore advised to give the following informations to your
claim's agent via email which is cliamsagent70@yahoo.co.uk
1. Full name and address.
2. Country.
3. Tel and fax number.
4.Occupation.
5.Age.
Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account
users program. Yours Sincerely,Mrs. Rose Dickson,Executive.(Euro Lottery
Intern.)Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr.
Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James
Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy
(Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer
(Chairman).Copyright © 2005 British Lottery International
MRS ROSE DICKSON,
VICE PRESIDENT

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