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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.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447011137780 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • processingpayment1020@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UKGLOBAL LOTTERY" <newdawn2007@rediffmail.com>
Date: 31 Jan 2007 01:12:05 -0000
Subject: YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION, CONGRATULATIONS!!


&nbsp; FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAMMEAWARD DEPARTMENT.P O Box 1410, L70 1NL Liverpool, UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services) Ref: FER/4690/6103/24Batch:245-379-482Winning No:701/RMD123
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; WINNING NOTIFICATION Attn: We happily announce to you the new year draw of the Bono Lottery International Program held on the 30th January, 2007. Your name \"email address\" was attached to ticket number; 12324277 serial number 6663817262 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 2-9-22-23-24-30 bonus number 5, which consequently won the lottery in the second category.
You hereby have been approved lump sum pay of 1,200,000.00 (ONE MILLION&nbsp;TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) file Ref: FER/8309/1209/26 from the total cash prize of 1,38,000,000.00 shared amongst ten lucky winners based on their category.
All participants \"email address\" were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand names from Canada,Australia,United States,Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some multinational companies as including Bill Gate, and some other EU governmental personalities part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base. To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact the The promotions Manager with this information:NAME:..............................................................ADDRESS:......................................................NATIONALITY:.............................................SEX:................................................................AGE:...............................................................PHONE/MOBILE:.........................................FAX:...............................................................OCCUPATION:............................................COMPANY:...................................................BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:...................................
PLEASE CONTACT: BARR . JAMES HARRYUK GLOBAL LOTTERY REWAR PROMOTIONS Email: processingpayment1020@yahoo.com Tel: +44-7011137780
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid dual claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel, Note.
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!
Best Regards,
ELIZABETH PEALECo-coordinator

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