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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Ralph Edson <ukloto_paymentoffice@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:10:00 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: CONGRATULATION ONCE AGAIN !




Attn:James J. Sievers,
We wish to congratulate you and formally inform you that you have won The sum of £2,500.000 in the last email- Lottery draw organized by UK Lotto nternational free lottery Promotion. For the avoidance of dought,
the lottery is base on email random ballot to increase the use of internet and reward the users of internets. Every thing is been puting into place to see that your payment comes as soon as possible but you have to be fast inwhat ever you are doing (RESPONDING ).
After much verifivation with our verification department preparing your winning certificate we thereby forwarded your payment file to our paying bank who will finaliy contact you inrespect to your winning prize payment.Please make sure you do update this office should incase bank start communication with you.
Regards.
Mr Ralph Edson
British Lottery Paying department Officer



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