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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: "joy hill" <mrsjoyhill@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:35:13 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS

Ref: 7458222754
Batch: 905534213/255
Winning no: XB3/701/LNRC

Dear Lucky winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 27th of November
2005 from the Australian International Lottery programme. Your name was
attached to ticket number: 7458222754;Serial number: 6741137002.This batch
draws the lucky numbers as follows 2-17-43-47-52 bonus number 17,which
consequently won the lottery in the second category. You hereby have been
approved a lump sum pay of US$500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in
cash credit file ref:ILP/MW 47509/02 from the total cash prize shared
amongst five lucky winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn
from nine hundred thousand e-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United
States, Asia, Europe,Middle East,Africa and Oceania as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery
was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies
as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities
where they have operational base and also to alleviate poverty in the
society.

Further more your details (e-mail address) fall within our African
representative office in Nigeria, as indicated in your play coupon and your
prize of US$500,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch
office in Nigeria. Simply Contact one of ourappointed agents frank John at:
frankjohn_2@myway.com Please quote your Date of draw, reference, batch and
winning numbers, which can be found on the top left corner of this and
telephone number to
help locate your file easily.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by
non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed on or before 8th of December
2005;otherwise all funds will be returned as unclaimed.Congratulations once
again on your winnings!

Best Regards,

mrs, joy hil

(for Public Relations)

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