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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.
  • douglasrobin_office001@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Hullett Marion <hullett_marion2@chicago.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:53:07 -0500
Subject: ATTN:YOUR LUCKY DAY

The National Lottery
P.O. Box 1010 Liverpool
L70 1NL United Kingdom.
Ref:SGIL/763276/03
Batch:074/05/ZY3

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

Dear Lucky Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (#995) of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International
Program held on Wed 07 June,2006.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
5647600545188 with Serial number 5073-11 drew the
lucky numbers: 19-25-32-47-48-49-28 which subsequently

won you one of the Five Jackpot prizes(match 5 plus
bonus).

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of £750,000 in
cash credited to file SGIL/763276/03.All participants
for the online version were selected randomly from the
World Wide Web through a computer draw system and
extracted from over 2,000 Unions, Associations, and
Corporate bodies that are listed
online. This promotion takes place monthly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated
in your play
coupon.

In view of this, your £750,000 would be released to you
by any of our payment
offices in Europe.
To file for your claim, please contact our Fiduciary
Officer:

Mr.Douglas M.Robin
Email:douglasrobin_office001@yahoo.co.uk

He will be in the best position to prepare you
all relevant Documents/Paperwork.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 claiming
and unwarranted
abuse of this program. Please be warned.

Good luck from me and members of staff of the U.K
Yours faithfully,
Hullett Marion.
Online Coordinator for U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam