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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "claim 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 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.
  • capitalbonduk@yahoo.co.uk
  • capitalbonduk@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "GOLDMARKS GOLDMARKS" <promotion3@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:22:58 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! CASH AWARD FROM UNITED KINGDOM ONLINE LOTTO

FROM:PROMOTION MANAGER
INTERNATIONAL/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL ONLINE LOTTO

REFERENCE:P/A: 475061725
BATCH NO:7056490902/188
Dear Sir/Madam,


CONGRATULATIONS!!!

FOR YOUR CLAIM OF YOUR £1 200 000:00 GBT POUNDS, PLEASE REPLY TO YOUR CLAIM
AGENT :capitalbonduk@yahoo.co.uk

This is our final notice to you and the final letter for you to claim
your prize of-£1 200,000.00-GBT pounds awarded to you by the UNITED KINGDOM
INTERNATIONAL ONLINE LOTTO.This is the results of her WORLD-ONLINE
PROMOTION draws held on the 1st July, 2005.
We have before sent you a mail but no response from you according to
our claim agent, therefore I personally decieded to write this letter a as
our evidence to be at liberty to revert your winning to chrity
organisation if we didnot hear from you up to the final date.

Your name selected as a winner was attached to serial numbers 51850-0 and
track numbers 01-4110
that drew the lucky numbers 03-07-22-27-31-39 which consequently won
the lottery PRIZE in the 3 category.
All Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from over 15,000 000 names and addresses of individuals and companies from
America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New
Zealand. This Lottery programme was promoted and Sponsored by a conglomerate
of some multinational companies as part of
their social responsibility to the citizens/growing companies in the
communities where they have operational base.

Therefore you have consequently been awarded a lump sum pay out of £1 200
000(ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND GBT POUNDS)in cash,which is the
winning payout for Third Category winners. This is from the total prize
money of £ 12 000,000 (Twelve Million)pounds shared between 11
international winners of different categories.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your details fall among our European payment office and a certified
Bnak draft of £1(one million pounds) has been issued and sent to our claim
Agent -CAPITAL BOND UK.
To begin your claim process, please immediately Ring our UK paying
agent on the below contact address:

Contact Person : ROBERT JONES
CAPITAL BOND UK
238 Bemsham Lane
London C7 7EP
United Kingdom.
DIRECT/LINE +447778016939
capitalbonduk@yahoo.co.uk

REMEMBER, ALL PRIZE MONEY MUST BE CLAIMED NOT LATER THAN 30TH OF OCTOBER
2005.After this date, all prize award will be reverted to charity
organisation. Be informed that 5% of your lottery winning belongs Our/your
claim
agent-CAPITAL BOND UK.This is our agreement with them and you are to remit
this
5% to them after your prize money reported in your bank account.

Please note that your chque is in placed in a bond, therefore no
institution/person has right to remove/deduct part of the prize until
it gets to the beneficiary account and any person below 18 years is not
allowed to file this claim.

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 away from public notice until the process of transferring your
claims
has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account.This is part
of oursecurity protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts
byparticipants/non participants who take advantage of our name and this
programme to scam our winners.

Once more Congratulations
Promotion Manager
ANDREW WHITE
OPERATION MANAGER

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