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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: "Free Lottery" <lottery_freelotto@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:36:07 -0600
Subject: CONGRATULATION LUCKY WINNER!!!

FROM: THE DIRECTOR EUROPEAN PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30, LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND
www.freelotto.com

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
FreeLotto draw held yesterday the 31th of Octomber. All 10 winning addresses
were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your
email address emerged alongside 9 others as category 2 winners in this
year's Annual FreeLotto Draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for total pay out of
£1,000,000.00 pounds (one millionpounds) 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
Please contact ema; (lottery_freelottouk@yahoo.co.uk) as soon as possible
for the immediate release of your winnings:

Dr. David Stocker
Chief financial Director
The Freelotto Company
lottery_freelottouk@yahoo.co.uk

N.B: Steps to claim your prize
1. Winners must immediately pay a non-deductible amount of £ 595.00 pounds
only as fee before claiming their prize for the processing and handling of
award. Note that your prize have been insured to the real value of £1,000
000.00 pounds hence no deduction can be done.

2. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.
3. Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address where they
want their prize paid or sent.
4. Winners must send their names, address, and telephone number and means of
identification (international passport or drivers’ license) to claim officer
to process immediate payment of their prize. Winners are advice to keep this
award confidentialuntil prize are claimed to avert incidence of
impersonation by unscrupulous elements. Once again on behalf of all our
staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely,
Sophia Halendale
Promotions Manager
The FreeLotto Company
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The FreeLotto Awards is proudly sponsored by a
conglomerate of international IT companies. The
freelotto 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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We also encourage you to visit our website at
www.freelotto.com and take your chance to play and
become part of our daily winners. Millions are won on
a daily basis on one of the world’s most famous free
lotto service.

Thanks.
Dr. David Stocker

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