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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: "forest tom" <lottopromo12@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:22:09 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION CHRISTMAS BONUS (PLS CONTACT CLAIMS AGENT)

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
The National Lottery
P O Box 101
THE MARINA OFFICE,ST PETERS
YACHT BASIN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,
NE6 1HX ENGLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UKNL/05/8256/53219/QE327, Batch: UKNL5/A115-07
RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE


Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the
results of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,UNITED KINGDOM. We are
happy to inform you that you have
emerged a winner under the HIGH STAKES DRAWS SECOND
CATEGORY,which is part of our promotional draws. The draws
were held on 10th december 2005 and results are being
officiallyannounced today. Participants were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names/email
addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America,
Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our
InternationalPromotions Program.
You/Your company, attached to ticket number
55-9-478, with serial number 52-67 drew the winning
numbers 05 10 17 19 29 42 (21) and consequently won in
the second Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of
?1,500,000 (one million five hundred thousand great British
pounds sterling), which is the winning payout for Category
B winners. This is from the total prize money of
13.5 million POUNDS shared among the 3 winners in this
category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with our International
Funds Transfer agents EWEEK SECURITY COMPANY UK and
has been insured in your name. In your best interest
and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any
kind, we request that you keep the entire details of
your award strictly from public notice until the
process of transferring your claims has been
completed, and your funds remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or unscrupulous acts by
participants/nonparticipants of this program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year
premium stakes draw where you stand a chance of
winning up to US$500 million that will be shared
amongst 10 winners worldwide; we hope that with a part
of your prize you will participate.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize:

REV.NORLAN DAVIES
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER
EWEEK SECURITY COMPANY UK
CRAWFORD LODGE 98A REDCLIFFE
GARDENS LONDON SW10 9HH, UK
FAX: +44-870-135-7986
Fax: +44-870-121-5580
Tel: +44702-305-8912
Email:norlan_001@yahoo.com

You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or
fax within a week of receiving this notice. Failure to
do so may warrant immediate disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find
below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to
quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: REF: UKNL/05/8256/53219/QE327
BATCH NUMBER: UKNL5/A115-07
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,

THE COORDINATOR,
The National Lottery
P O Box 101
THE MARINA OFFICE,ST PETERS
YACHT BASIN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,
NE6 1HX ENGLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification. Please do not
reply to this mail. Contact your transfer agent
immediately.

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