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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: "Global Promotions" <info_global3@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:35:49 +0000
Subject: FINAL NOTICE!!_____________YOU HAVE WON US$850,000.00USD

ATTENTION:

10TH GLOBAL PROMO-ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM,
THE NETHERLANDS.
ALFONSTRAAT B56, 1002 BS AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT,

REF: OYL /26510460037/02
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD

ATTENTION: RE/ AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of winners of the 10TH
GLOBAL PROMO-ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM, THE NETHERLANDS held on the
14th of December 2005. Having picked your email address by our electronic
web site visitors collators in recognition of your patronage to the Internet
services, in the final draw, your name was attached to ticket number
023-0148-790-459, with Serial number 5073-11 drew the Lucky
numbers3-11-44-37-10-43, and consequently won the lottery in the 3rd
category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
US$850.000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO.OYL /26510460037/02. This
is from total prize money of US$80,400,000.00 shared among the Twenty-nine
international winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000 names from
Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, America and Asia as part of
international promotions Program, which is conducted annually.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with a Bank in sterdam, insured in your name. Due
to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award
strictly from public notice until your
claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is
part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts
by participants of this program.

To begin your claim, please contact our information centre at :
globalinformationcentre@walla.com .
For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice.

Another computer ballot will hold to determine the paying banks our twenty
nine winner will be zoned to, so do endeavour to send your required
information on time.

Due to unscrupulous acts by participants of this program, and as part of
precautionary measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program by some persons, we have resulted to pay our winners only by
bank wire transfer.

To enable us file in your name for payment, please do provide the following
informations:
1.YOUR FULLNAME:..................................................
2.YOUR SEX:.............................................................
3.YOUR ADDRESS:....................................................
4.YOUR FAX/PHONE NUMBER :.................................
5.YOUR OCCUPATION:...............................................
6.YOUR COMPANY'S NAME:......................................
7.YOUR AGE:.............................................................
8.YOUR REF NUMBER:..............................................
You are adviced to keep your winning numbers to yourself so that nobody can
make claim on your winnings.
Provide the following immediately so we can start processing your payment.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

Sincerely,
Zack Sonnie.
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
10TH GLOBAL PROMO-ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM,
THE NETHERLANDS.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification.

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