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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: "Sweepstakes Online Lottery" <winningnotification@theuknational-lottery.org>
Reply-To: info_vrfdepts@uk2.net
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 01:59:59 -0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION



The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68/ALX
Batch: 074/05/ZY369/ALX
Fax: +448701312413
Tel: +447031946186

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#1013) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on Wed. September24th 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188/ALX with
Serial number 5368/02/ALX drew the lucky numbers: 01-05-07-41-43-49(bonus
no.), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5
plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £59,636 ( Fifty
nine thousand, six hundred and thirty six pounds sterling) in cash credited
to file KTU/9023118308/03/ALX. This is from a total cash prize of
£894,540.00 shared amongst the first fifteen (15) 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 through computer draw
system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate
bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.

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 You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of You have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £59,636.00 ( Fifty nine
thousand, six hundred and thirty six pounds sterling) would be released to
you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European agents will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact them. For security reasons, you
are advised to keep yourwinning 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.


To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Mrs Jessica Morris.
Email: info_vrfdepts@uk2.net

1, Winning E-mail address
2, Batch Number
3, Refference Number
4, Ticket Number
5, Serial Number

For further clarification/verification of your claims, Please call on any of
our official numbers as stated in notification e-mail.
You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings
and also get a prize breakdown:-http://www.national-
lottery.co.uk/player/p/results
/results.do

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

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