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

Fraud email example:

From: "UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAMME" <ukintlotto@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: paycenteroffice@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:23:38 -0700
Subject: Your Email Address Won

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the winners of the Group Lotto programme held on the 28th July 2006, Your email address was attached to ticket number 002/8765 which drew lucky numbers-03,18,31,33,38,48 and serial number 018/289/06, which consequently won in the 3rd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of 500,000.00 GPB (Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds sterling) in cash credit. This is from a total cash prize of 5,000,000.00 GBP(five million Great Britain Pounds sterling)shared among the ten(10) international winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims have been processed and your winning remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unlucky participants .

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America and the Oceania. This promotional programme takes place once every year, after the yearly national lotto have made their profit from the previous year’s national draws .

To file for your winning please contact our payment center agent Mr. David Brimley, at (paycenteroffice@yahoo.co.uk )

All correspondence should be directed to this payment center. Remember all winning must be claimed not later than twp weeks from this notice as unclaimed funds will be included in the next year's stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your winning information in all correspondence to the pay center office

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do not hesitate to inform the pay center office agent as soon as possible. Congratulations from our members of staff, and thank you for been part of our promotional lucky program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.*************** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS MAIL.KINDLY CONTACT YOUR SPECIFIED AGENT FOR YOUR WINNINGS.***************

Sincerely yours,
Sharon Smith
Lotto Co-ordinator
UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTO

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