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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: "harry ferdinard" <uknationallottery20056@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:06:00 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!
BRITISH WEB LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration Z720633X)

The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE6 1HX
England
(Customer Services)

Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online
Sweepstakes International program held on Wednesday 29th of Octobaer, 2005.
It is yet to be unclaimed and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as
regards this. Your e-mail address attached to the lucky numbers: 2, 5, 13,
30, 39, 49(bonus ball 3), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category i.e JACKPOT bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a
total sum of £180,152 (ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED AND
FIFTY TWO Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize shared amongst the (9)lucky winners in this
category i.e JACKPOT 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 is part of the Country's Programme to fund for the
Olympic Games in 2012 The £1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4719851.stm)

The Olympic fund-raising games will include a TV draw The National Lottery
may have seemed a relatively simple way of helping pay for the Olympics. The
Lottery must raise £1.5bn over the next seven years to pay its share of the
public money going into the Olympics. A further £650m will be raised from
council tax in London and another £250m from the London Development Agency,
while similar sums will be raised from ticket sales, marketing, sponsorship
and the sale of television rights.

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 £180,152 (ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY
TWO Pounds Sterling) will be released to you by any of our payment offices
in Europe. Our European agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact her.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim 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:
Name: Alicia Jones
Official Email: aljones2007@yahoo.co.uk

Yours faithfully,
Harry Ferdinard.
Online coordinator
for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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