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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: "Lynn Denise Eccles." <neitherlandslotto@luckyday.nl>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:00:16 +0100
Subject: Send Enquires To Mr. Javier Lopez

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS. WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER
www.luckyday.nl

Lucky Day Lottery
107 Vanderloop 1902AB ,
Amsterdam,The Neitherlands.

{NO TICKET WAS SOLD} 2/11/2005.

Dear e-mail bearer,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of LUCKY DAY LOTTERY Netherlands programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets was sold.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of seventeen winners in the 1st category with the following:

Ref Number: PC 390 ES 214
Batch Number: 26371545-LNI/2005
Ticket Number: PCP 002 871

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of of 615,810.00 € ( SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TEN EUROS ONLY)., Credited to file Ref Number: PC 390 ES 214. This is from total prize of 10,468,770 € (TEN MILLION FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EUROS ONLY) in 1st category shared among the seventeen international winners, each from the total payout Congratulation!!

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting to your agent's requirements, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claim of your prize winning you are advised to solicitute for your payment in our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winner's, the Spanish office in Madrid- Spaiñ:

Mr. Javier Lopez.
Tel Nº: +34- 653-271-223.
j_lopez200@yahoo.es

That way your Winnings Certificate and all other relevant documents can be prepared for you. You would be required to show an instrument of identification when cashing your cheque i.e. Drivers license or International passport. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims 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.

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 20 days. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. Congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Lynn Denise Eccles.
Games/Lottery Coordinator.

NOTE: *PLS FILL AND RETURNED THIS FUND RELEASE FORM TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT: Mr. Javier Lopez *

1.FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
9.BATCH NUMBER:
10.TICKET NUMBER:
11.REFFERENCE NUMBER:
12.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL
13.COUNTRY:
14.AMOUNT WON:

Upon receipt of the duly requested data, they will sendyou the contact information of the paying Bank office so you can proceed with effecting the release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.

The LUCKY DAY Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.The LUCKYDAY LOTTERY 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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