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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: Fiduciary Agent Australia Lottery <au_lottery_agent03@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 01:02:37 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!


Ref: 475061725
Date:18/11/2005
Batch: 7056490902/188
Winning no: GB8701/LPRC
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release
on the 17th November,2005 from the Auxie-
International e-Lottery programme. Which is fully
based on an electronic selection of winners using
their e-mail
addresses from some sites.Your email address was
attached to ticket number; 47061725 07056490902 serial
number 7741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers
as follows 5-13-33-37-42bonus number17,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/HW 47509/02 from the
total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in
this category.
All participant were selected through a computer
balloting system drawn form Nine hundred thousand
E-mail addresses from Africa, Australia, America,
Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as
part of our international promotions program which is
conducted
bi-annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a
conglomorate of some
multinational companies as part of their social
responsibility to the citizens. Further more, your
details(e-mail address) falls within our
African-Euro representative office Africa and Europe,
as indicated and your prize of US$200,000.00 will be
released to you from this regional branch office in
AFRICA.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate
in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Million
international
draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
Simply contact our fudiciary agent, Mr Collins Regan
at
au_lottery_agent002@yahoo.co.uk to file for your
claim. Please quote your reference, batch and winning
number which can be found on the top left corner of
this notification as well as your full name,address
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 protocols 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 31st
November 2005;
otherwise all funds will be termed as Unclaimed and
eventually returned back to the national treasury.
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Best Regards
Prince Willford.



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