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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 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.
  • +447011128555 (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.
  • freelotto_payment_officer@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Vera White" <vwhite1001@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:49:50 +0000
Subject: From The Free Lotto Promo Officer (Winning Notification)

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30, LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the Free
Lotto draw held on the 5th March, 2007. All 10 winning addresses were
randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international Emails.

Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this
year's Annual Free Lotto Draw. Consequently, you have therefore been
approved for a total pay out of 1,200,000 pounds (one million two hundred
thousand pounds) only.
The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

To file in your claim, Please contact the underlisted Claims/ payment
Officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

Mr Kevin Jones
Email :freelotto_payment_officer@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:+447011128555,+447040102969,
Fax:+448703890512

For security purpose and clarity, we advise that you keep your winning
information confidential until your claims have been processed and your
money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participanT.

N.B: Steps to claiming your prize;

1) PLEASE DO FILL THE CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM TO CONTACT THE CLAIMS/PAYMENT
OFFICER.

1.FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:
8.TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER:
9.AMOUNT WON:
10. NATIONALITY:

NOTICE:
The above details will be documented in our database to avoid double
claiming, or claim from any unscrupulous individual.

2) Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.

3) DO KEEP THE CLAIMS OFFICER INFORMED IF YOU WILL APPEAR YOURSELF FOR YOUR
CLAIMS OR YOU WISH YOUR DRAFT POSTED TO YOU VIA COURIER.

4) Winners must send scanned copies of their means of identification
(international passport or drivers license) to Clearance/Payment Officer to
process immediate payment of their prize

5) NOTE! Any claim not made before (10) working days from date of
notification will indicate that the winner has voluntarily forfeited his/her
winnings.

This promotional program takes place annually and we hope with part of your
winning, you will take part in our next year 20 Million Pounds International
Lottery.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Mrs Vera White
Promotions Manager
The Lotto Company
UK & Europe.
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The Free Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell computers,
Mackintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.
The free lotto internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized
to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. We are
proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than
150 countries worldwide.
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We also encourage you to visit our website at www.freelotto.com and
take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners. Millions
are won on a daily basis on one of the world's most famous free lotto
service
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NOTICE: You have received this message from Free lotto uk prize dept.
at your e-mail address because you have visited on of our sponsored
sites and have voluntarily given your email address to receive mails
from their sponsors.If you wish to be taken out of this list do not reply to
this mail,reply to the agent with the words remove. If you are not the
intended recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly, use,
disclose,distribute,print or copy any part of this message. If you believe
you
have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies of it
from your system and notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail.

Thank you.

_________________________________________________________________
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