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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: "bryan smith" <bryansmith@bryansmith4545.com>
Reply-To: bryansmith5555@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:28:35 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION

THE ALWAYSO LOTTO COMPANY
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND

Dear Value Winner,

Am Mr.Bryan Smith the fiduciary agent assinged to your case Am please to
announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the Alwayso Lotto draw held
on the 20th of sept 2005. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected
from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your email address emerged
alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual Alwayso
Lotto Draw.All participants for the online version were selected randomly
from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from
over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
online. This promotion takes place weekly. Consequently,you have therefore
been approved for a total pay out of Two million euros only.The following
particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate the
processing of your claims and certificate which will facilitate the release
of your winnings.Your winning price is to the tune of £2,500,000(Two
million five hundred pounds in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

1. Full names.
2. Phone number
3. Fax number
4. Occupation
5. Sex
6. Age
7. Nationality

Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transfered to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory
obligations,verifications, validations and satisfactory report. You are
advised to forward this information as soon as possible to enable us attend
to your winnings. Our firm has been contracted to handle payments on your
behalf, once we confirm your information, your payments would be processed.
Everything was done in sucha way that our payments mode would meet the
standards set by the Lottery boards.After you have sent down these
information, a certificate will be prepared for you.

Once again, congratulations.

Sincerely,
Mr.Bryan smith.

Alwayso Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,the
Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other
international IT companies.The Alwayso internet draw is held once in a
year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers
worldwide.We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually
in more than 150 countries worldwide.

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