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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 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.
  • barr_bana@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: williams senior <wife_williams@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 08:00:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOUR EMAIL HAS WON




The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)


Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

National U.K Lottorey wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on 8th APRIL, 2006. Your email account have been picked as a winner of SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY.

This results is now released to you on 30ND THURSDAY 2006 and your email address attached in the A Category lucky ball ,,,,,, and bonus ball , to check your results online click on this link http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses users.
Be advise to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
All winning must be claimed not later than 15st MAY, 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be retured to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.
You are therefore advised to give the following informations to your agent MR.FRANK email:barr_bana@yahoo.com
1. Full name and address.
2. Country.
3. Tel and fax number.
4.Occupation.
Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Julie Van Hans,
Executive.(Euro Lottery Intern.)
Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).
Copyright © 2005 British Lottery International
MRS ROSE FEMI,

(VICE PRESIDENT)







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