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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: "allan woods" <fred_jeff@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:10:05 +0000
Subject: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY WINNER,CONGRATULATION

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#1019 ) of the
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on WED.
28 SEP, 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 21-32-41-42-43-46(bonus no.17),which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim atotal sum of US$2,500,000.00(Two
million,Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) in cash credited tO file
ktu/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of &pound;£1,002,068 shared amongst the
(2)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites throug a computer draw system and extracted from
over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
online. This promotion takes placeweekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.
In view of this, your US$2,500,000.00 (Two million,Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) in cash credited to file
ktu/9023118308/03.will be released to you by any of our payment offices in
Europe. Our European office will immediately commencethe process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact the claims
processing officer.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our claims

processing officer:
STACY ELLIS(Mrs)
Email:claims_uklotterydraws2005@yahoo.co.uk

You can go to our online result site to confirm the
value of your winnings and also get a prize

breakdown:-
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results


UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
ALLAN WOODS (Mr)
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

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