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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: "Qsoft Intl Ltd." <qsofts@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:12:47 +0600
Subject: Email Lottery

Customer Services
Qsoft Email Sweepstakes.
West Copland 7721NL.
Ref No: QES-35187-22/05.
Serial No: 301133


Date: November 22nd, 2005.

Dear Friend,

SWEEPSTAKE PRIZE AWARD INFORMATION.

This is to officially notify you of the result of our Qsoft Email
Sweepstakes program that was conducted on the 18th day of November 2005 and
that your email address which was attached to a Serial Number 301133 and
selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) has won you this
sweepstakes in the general prize category. You have now been selected amoung
the winners to claim a total payment sum of USD$980,000:00 (NINE HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY) each as attaches to payment file Ref No:
QES-35187-22/05. We are aware of the surprises that do follow such a
notification message based on the fact that you have not purchase a lottery
ticket from us, but be informed here that it was a promotional program from
our Q-soft company with the major aim of introducing our services and the
same time promoting the benefit of the Internet usage. All email addresses
that were use for this program were extracted from the internet through our
software programing.

These approved funds can only be claimed by contacting our assign payment
house. Due to the nature of this program, we ask that you keep a copy of
this notification message safe until your claim has been processed and
collected; as this is the only security measure that has been put in place
to save guild each winner interest. You can begin this claim now by
contacting the Payment house on email address: alkinsfin@katamail.com with
your Complete Names, Postal (Resident) Address, Telephone and Fax Numbers,
Occupation, Reference Numbers and the amount approved (Won) for the
processing of this claim. All funds not applied for after the 6th day of
December 2005 will be return back to us.

Felicitations as we do expect you to make better use of these funds.

Sincerely Yours,
S. C. Tikkens.
Q-soft E. Sweepstakes.
Email: qsoft@winning.com

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Note: In accordance with the Q-soft Sweepstakes policy and regulations,
this notification is dispatched directly to the prize Winners only. If you
are not the rightful recipient and feel you have received this message by
error, kindly destroy any copy in your possession for you are not authorized
to read, print, retain or disseminate any part of it.
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