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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "million british pounds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • lisa_lisasmith@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: lisa_smith@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:07:29 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Congratulations?=

It is our pleasure to inform you that you have emerged
as a Category "A" winner of the International Premier
Lotto United Kingdom.


Congratulations

You are entitled to a prize sum of Four Million Five
Hundred Thousand British Pounds, Reference number for
your prize is PILS/SA/UK/69-810278, ticket number
A/04-3919.

As a category A winner, you have been selected from a
total number of Twenty Five Thousand names drawn from
Asia, Africa, Europe, Middle East and America. After
the computer ballot of our International Promotions
Program, only six winners emerged in the category and
therefore both are to receive payouts of Four Million
Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds from the total
Twenty Seven Million British Pounds for second
category winners.

We in the International Premier Lotto United
Kingdom, It is by this program, launching our model
computer balloting lottery draws, developed and
designed to satisfy the cravings of the ever growing
number of participants in our various lottery
programs. With funds accrued exclusively from previous
draws, payouts to all winners are guaranteed and will
be transferred in record time.

This is part of the Country's Programme to fund for
the Olympic Games in 2012 The £1.5bn Olympic lottery
puzzle (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4719851.stm)

The Lottery must raise £1.5bn over the next seven
years to pay its share of the public money going
into the Olympics.

A further £650m will be raised from council tax in
London and another £250m from the London Development
Agency, while similar sums will be raised from
ticket sales, marketing, sponsorship and the sale of
television rights.

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 £4,500,000 Four Million and Five Hundred
thousand British Pounds will be released to
you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your funds as
soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you
are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your
money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit
to claim your prize.

To immediately collect your prize, please contact our
Category "A" financial handlers with information
below:


Mr. Richard Spencer
Premium Finance & Trust Ltd
United Kingdom



Provide prize reference number-PILS/SA/UK/69-810278
and winning ticket number-A/04-3919 for confirmation.
In your best interests, you must initiate contact
within one week of receipt of this correspondence. You
are also advised to send a copy of this Email,either
by fax or email, to your financial handler Mr. Richard
Spencer when contacting him.You are to keep all
lottery information from the public as we will not
entertain cases of multiple claims processing or
compromise the privacy and security for all winners.

Other necessary International Premier Lotto United
Kingdom information are
Draw 1 number: 001-22528
Draw 2 number: 002-8073
International Lottery code no:IL66118

You may be required to provide any of the above
information during the process of collecting your
prize. You are advised once again to keep all winning
lottery information and numbers from the public in
line with our company security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program
by unscrupulous individuals.

We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that
you participate in any of our international programs
in the nearest future.

Thank you Sincerely,


The lottery Coordinator,
International Premier Lotto United Kingdom
Great Surry House
203 Black Frairs Road,
London SE 1 8NH

reply to lisa_lisasmith@yahoo.com

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