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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447031947368 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • camelot_claims_dept@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Tina Forrester" <camelotlotterypromos7@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:00:06 +0000
Subject: <<CAMELOT PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION>>

CAMELOT LOTTERY PROMOS,
406BURY NEW ROAD
WHITEFIELD ,
MANCHESTER M45 7SX
U.K.
FROM: THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF NO: MELI-T/17-F044262312

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We are officially informing you of the result of the Frontline Lottery Winners International programs held on the 29th of September 2005 as part of our promotional programs for the year 2005. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 901-0148-790-691 with reference number MELI-T/17-F044262312 drew winning numbers 990-11-815-37-10-83 and credited to batch number 13/FFP/LDL/037, which consequently won in the 3rd category via our electronic ticket as stated above. You have therefore been approved for a pay out of  £300,000 GBP (Three HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY).
 
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We also advice that you keep your winning information very confidential as our security policy demands to avoid double claims/impersonation and unwarranted abuse of this program by some individuals.

 

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection system (ESS) from a database of over 500,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world. This promotional program being the first of its kind will now take place annually and we hope with part of your winning you will take part in our next year Eight Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pound Sterlings International Lottery. To file for your claim, you will be contacting our Customer Service Unit, authorized to conduct the neccessary verification to enable you receive total payment (You will receive more information upon your acknowledgment of this email).

 

Customer Service Unit

 

MR. LARRY BISHOP AND ASSOCIATE LTD U.K,
20 Lausanne Road London,
SW2 3JB ENGLAND.U.K
Email:camelot_claims_dept@hotmail.com

Tel: +44-7031947368

 

You are to provide the claims agent with the under listed information as soon as
possible:
 
1. NAME IN FULL:................................
2. NATIONALITY:.................................
3. AGE:.........................................
4. SEX:.............................

This promotional lottery is promoted and sponsored by software corporations and other private organizations and we intend to use this medium to help individuals generate fortunes which would encourage them to expand their business frontiers thereby creating more opportunities and assisting with humanitarian concerns within their immediate environment. All winning must be claimed not later than One Week of Acknowledgment. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as Unclaimed.  After this date all winning funds will be included in our subsequent program. In order to avoid complications always quote your reference number in all correspondence.

 

Sincerely,

Tina Forrester.
LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS.
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, UK.
406 BURY NEW ROAD WHITEFIELD,
MANCHESTER M45 7SX
U.K.

 

 

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The Camelot Lottery Promos Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,
the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other
international IT companies. The Camelot LOTTERY internet draw in each quater of the
year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers
worldwide. We are proud to say that up to One Million Euros are won annually in more
than 150 Countries worldwide.

 

 

 

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