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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: "Mrs. Angela Gir" <Enquiries@woods-financial-services.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:47:14 GMT
Subject: CBES RESULTS

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
UK OFFICE
6-7 HOLY TRINITY ROAD
SHEERNESS
KENT ME12 2PJ
UNITED KINGDOM
WWW.FREELOTTO.COM
WWW.FREELOTTOUK.COM



Dear Award Winner,

My name is MRS ANGELA GAIR,and on the behalf of FREE LOTTO COMPANY OF UNITED KINGDOM, I wish to inform you of the announcement today as dated 6th of December 2005 of winners of the FREELOTTO DRAWS held on the 1st of December 2005.You are one of the 10 lucky winners randomly selelcted.at the final draws held.

Note that no tickets were sold, all participants in this lottery program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot email system(CBES) drawn from over 50,000,000 individuals and companies from search engines and web sites all over the world. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a 2nd category winner in this year's quarterly Draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of 1,000,000 GBP (One million GBP only).The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 11-09-78-23-08-72
(ii) Email ticket number: FLC/754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FLC/09622UK
(iv) File Ref number: FLC/04/736207152/UK
(v) Batch number: CBES09/01/05


To begin your claims process Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

MR.MAXWELL SMITH LOUIS
WOODS FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD.
ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT
22,SIR THOMAS LONGLEY ROAD
SITTINGBOURNE
KENT ME2 4FA
UNITED KINGDOM.
TEL: +44-704-011-2042
TEL: +44-704-011-3870
FAX: +44-870-131-3307
FAX: +44-870-130-4225
EMAIL: ENQUIRIES@WOODS-FINANCIAL-SERVICES.COM



Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
MRS ANGELA GAIR.


This winning notification was automatically generated so do not reply and the contents herein are valid for only two weeks. After which all winnings not claimed before or on the expiration of the two(2)weeks will be forfeited.

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