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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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Please note about this email:

• It is a fake lottery scam (3 typical phrases found).
  
• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "international lotto" <drawlotto13@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:03:37 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !!!!

UNIVERSAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL

Private Bag X50, Auckland Park, 2006
Johannesburg, South Africa
Tel: +27 73 781 6191

Congratulations!

The Universal  Lottery International Promotion team is proud to inform you that you have won US$2,100,000.00.Your E-mail address is one of 200 lucky Addresses who have won in the weekly Promotion.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all part of the world as part of our electronic business Promotions Program.

See below how to claim your prize.

Details on the Winnings :

Your Winning Reference Number is: LLI/240142/011

 Batch Number:  18/006/1094/LIPDA/SL

Lucky Numbers  80, 35, 11, 72, 90, 41 +1

Ticket Number  7017-4162-1018

Serial Number MH4710019

Just contact your processing manager below for claiming of your prize and remember to quote your reference and Batch Number for easy processing of your prize.

You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate the processing of your claims and certificate.

1.  Full names.
2.  Phone number.
3.  Fax number.
4.  Occupation.
5.  Sex.
6.  Age.
7.  Country.
8.  Country of resident

Remember, you must contact your claim agent Mr Owen Douglas,Call him and claim your prize after calling him send your refrence and batch number and all the above informations to his email address and call him to let him know that you have contacted him through email .

Processing Manager: Mr. OWEN DOUGLAS
TEL:  27 73 781 6191 

EMAIL  :  owendouglas1970@yahoo.co.uk
EMAIL  :  owen1970douglas@yahoo.com

Congratulations again and have a lot of fun. The Universal Lottery International team

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