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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: "British Raffle" <britishraffle_3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jason.hall@winning.com
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:51:59 +0000
Subject: Your Winning Notification.

British Raffle Nominees(BRN):
28 Tanfield Road,
Croydon, London
United Kingdom

Ref No.: BRN/421ONI/05
Batch No.: BRN/23/136-A


WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the BRN programs held in the month of
October 2005 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
BRN-033 6123 234 with Serial number: 005404 drew the lucky numbers: 31 06 26
13 35 07 11, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category. You
have therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of £450,000 (Four Hundred
and Fifty Thousand Pounds) in cash credited to file BRN/F/75543340/05. This
is from a total cash prize of 30 Million pounds, shared amongst the Ten (10)
lucky winners in this category. This year BRN Program Jackpot (Lotto 6/49
and Lotto Super 7) one of the largest ever British Lottery.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of
this, your £450,000 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds) would be
released to you.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of
your funds to you as soon as you make contact with them.

All participants were selected randomly from the Internet through computer
draw system and extracted from over 100,000 websites. This promotion takes
place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential until your claims is processed and your money
remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is
a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program by some unscrupulous person(s).

To file for your claim, please Address your response to Jason Hall, a
fiduciary agent or contact UK National Lottery Coordinator at the below
address:

Mr. Patrick Herand,
Coordinator, UK National Lottery

1 Plough Place, London EC4A 1DE
Tel. +44 7040106723
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference
numbers and batch numbers on the top right corner in any correspondences
with us or our designated agent. Congratulations once more from all members
and staffs of this program. Thank you for being part of our promotional
lottery program.

Sincerely,

Tracy Campbell,

Zonal Coordinator.

NB: All claims are to be made within 14 days from confirmation of this
message.

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