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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: "National Lottery" <nationallotteryyy@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rodneyclark@katamail.com
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:09:58 -0900
Subject: Your urgent response needed.

The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL
United Kingdom .
Ref: XYL /26510460037/05
Batch: 24/00319/IPD

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (# 985) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International programme held on Monday
12th december,2005 .Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
56475600545188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:
03-11-17-19-20-41 (bonus no 06), which subsequently won you the
lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore been approved to
claim a total sum of £1,235,180 (One Million Two Hundred And Thirty
Five Thousand One Hundred And Eighty Pounds Sterling’s) in cash
credited to file XYL /26510460037/05.

This is from a total cash prize of £2,470,360 (Two Million Four
Hundred And Seventy Thousand Three Hundred And Sixty Pounds
Sterling’s.) shared amongst the (2) lucky winners in this category.
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, associatons and corporate
bodies that are listed online.

This promotion takes place weekly. 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 £1,235,180 (One Million Two Hundred and Thirty Five
Thousand One Hundred and Eighty Pounds Sterling’s) would 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 them.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claims 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 programme.
Please be warned.
A copy of this notification has been sent to your fiduciary agent
to recognize your response for your claim.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Agent Rodney Clark
Email: rodneyclark@katamail.com
Tel: +44 704 011 9114

SIR GEORGE HARRIS
Online coordinator for:
U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Programme

NOTE: YOU MUST BE 18YRS OR ABOVE TO REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL.

NOTE:
Kindly forward us any suspicious winning notification that you receive.
They are some people trying to abuse our programme by duplicating our
winning notification and sending it out to extract money from innocent
people.
Do not respond to such e-mail, it's for your own risk.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam