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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • +447040131493 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447031907056 (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.
  • donaldsmith5151@rediffmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "british lotto" <british2006_lottery_28@msn.com>
Reply-To: donaldsmith5151@rediffmail.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:09:57 +0000
Subject: Dear Winner.

NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMO
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITES 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND
freelotto.com
Ref: NAS/941OYI/04
Batch:04/06/MA34

WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw of the National
Lottery Promo International program, held on the 4th
January 2006 in the United Kingdom. Your email address was
attached to ticket number:77770064638 with serial
number:67345/04 drew the lucky numbers 12-8-9-11-12-5,
which subsequently won you the lottery in the second
category.
You have herefore been approved to claim a total sum
of 350,000.00 pounds (Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds) in cash
credited to file pl/233376899/04.This is from a total
cash prize of 10 Million five hundred thousand pounds,shared among the first
thirty (30) lucky winners in this category. In view of
this, your money would be released to you by our Bank
firm in Europe .
Our European agent (Agency) will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of
your funds as soon as they are contacted.All
participants were selected randomly from Worldwide
Website through computer ballot system extracted from
over 100,000 companies and individuals.
This promotion takes place annually. For security
reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claims is processed
and your money remitted to you in whatever manner
you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claimming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
elements. Please bewarned.
To file your claims, please contact our agent by calling.

Name :Donald Smith.

Email:donaldsmith5151@rediffmail.com

Corporate Tel:+44 7040131493

TEL:+44-703 1907056
FAX:+44-703 0402616

To avoid unnecessary delay and complications, Please
quote your ref/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or
our designated agent.Congratulations once more from
all members and staffs of this program.

Yours sincerely,
Miss Judith Cole.
Public Relations Officer
National Lottery Promo
N.B:

1.All claims are nullified after 14 working days from
today.
2.Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the
claims officer.
3.Do inform the claims officer of any change of names
or addresses.and a valid identification to show the same name as the winner.
4.All winners under the age of 18 are automatically
dis-qualified.
______________________________________________________________________
The National lottery promo Awards is proudly
sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,the Intel
Group,Toshiba, Dell Computers,Mckintosh and a
conglomeration of other international IT companies.The
National lottery
internet draw is held quarterly every year and it
is organized to encourage the use of the internet and
computers worldwide.We are proud to say that over 200
Million pounds are won annually in more than 150
countries worldwide.We also encourage you to visit our
website at freelotto.com and take your chance to play
and become part of our daily winners.Millions are won
on a daily basis on one of the world's most famous The
National lottery Promo.

Email:donaldsmith5151@rediffmail.com
Corporate Tel:+44 7040131493
TEL: +44 703 1907056
FAX: +44 703 0402616

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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