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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: "flash lotto" <flash_lotto12@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:34:36 +0000
Subject: CONTACT THE AGENT AND CLAIM YOUR PRIZE {CONGRATULATION]

Euro Afro American Lottery promotion
Switzerland
>From the desk of: Mrs Rose Michael

Dear Sir\Madam

CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING:
We happily announce to you the draw of South African
2010 World cup Bid lottery Award International
programs held in Zurich, Switzerland.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9665 75604546 199
with ! Serial number 97560 drew the winning:60/84/27/17/36,
which subsequently won you the lottery award in the 2nd category.

Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
US$2,000.000.00
(Two million United States Dollars) in cash credited to file
KPC/9030108308/03 .
This is from a total cash prize of US $ 30,000,000.00 (Thirty million United
States dollars) shared among the first 200 lucky
winners in this category world-wide.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our lottery booklet representative office in
South Africa as indicate in the play coupon.
In view of this, your US $2,000.000 ( Two Million UnitedStates Dollars )
would be released to through the
assistance of our agent in South Africa immediately he
commence the process to facilitate the release of your
funds as soon as you contacted him.
All participants were selected randomly from World
Wide Web site through computer draw system and
extracted from over 100,000,00 companies and
individual emails address.

The lottery programe took place to promote South
Africa's 2010 world cup award. For security reasons,
you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims are 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 by some unscrupulous elements.

Please you are advised to file for your claim
immediately through our agent Mr MARK ZOLO
immediately you received this message because you
stand a risk of loosing the prize if you fail to claim
within a month from the day you received this
notification.

The information of our Claim Agent is below;provide him with all the
information below through his
E-MAIL ADDERSS;
Mr MARK ZOLO
Mr.Tel+ 27-73-7515408
Email:markzolo_200@yahoo.co.uk

1,your full name;

2,residencial address;

3,sex;

4,AGE;

5,MARITAL STATUS;

6,OCCUPATION;

7,E-MAIL ADDRESS;

8,TELEPHONE NUMBER;

9,Ticket number;

10;serial number;

11,batch number;

12;lottery ref number;

13,drew lucky numbers

14,Amount Won;

15,country;

Yours sincerely,
Mrs Rose Michael
(Zonal cordinator)

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