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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:
  • "british lottery international" (no such lottery exists)
  • "ms-word lotto" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447045709056 (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.
  • dr_fn_claim_units@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY UNL" <loto_uk_prog2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dr_fn_claim_units@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:43:07 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR MAIL ID HAS WON THIS MONTH ELECTRONIC MAIL WARAD 2007!

 

                

 

 

The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL

 

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

 

REF  NO:  475061723

BATCH NO: 70564702/188              

 

 

 

     RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE

 

Dear Sir/madam

 

National U.K Lottewry and  MICROSOFT COOPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE are pleased to inform you of the todays winners of our annual MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTERY conducted in UNITED KINGDOM THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON  Sat 21 Apr 07

 

Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to WINNER NO7. April -2007-02ms_pz, with serial number7741137002 drew the lucky numbers 5-13-33-37-42 , and consequently won in a category hit bonus ball  and bonus ballwhich won lotto draw of the above date.  To check your results online click on this link http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

 pay  of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STAERLING {£500,000,00 GB. Pounds sterling only. 

 you have been approve for lump sum in cash Credited to file REF NO:ms_475061723  this is from total prize money of GB 25,000,000.00 POUNDS, shared among the Twenty-five (25) lucky international winners in first and second category.

 

All participants were selected from Worldwide Websites especially yahoo mail through our Microsoft computer ballot system drawn from 21,000 Names, 3,000 names from each continent (Canada, Asia, Australia, United state, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania , as part of International "EMAIL" Promotions Program, Which is conducted annually for our prominent MSWORD users all over the world, and to encourage the use of Internet and Computers worldwide. 

 

Your E-mail address should be used in all correspondence with your claims agent, please Note that, you are to contact your claims agent via email and phone as we are promoting the use of E-mail. Also you have the right to call him to confirm your winnings, as he will provide you with the necessary details on how to claim Your prize.

 

You are to keep your ref. number and batch number from the public, until you have been processed and your prize money delivered to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and the act of scamming people of their ref number and prizes. We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our next year High stakes of GB 0.3billion International Lottery. You are advised to report back by means of email within the hour of reading this to and provid to your agent these information written below

 

      Contact Your Claims Agent

     Dr. Franklin Norman

     Email: dr_fn_claim_units@yahoo.co.uk

     Phone: +447045709056

     Fax +447005938312

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU ARE TO SEND THE BELOW INFORMATION REQUIRED TO CLAIM YOUR WINNING PRIZE:

 

1.Full Name:..............................................................

2.Address:.................................................................

3.Nationality:.............................................................

4.Age:.........................Date of Birth:.............................

5.Occupation:.............................................................

6.Home Tel:...........Mobile Tel:................Fax:.................
7.State of Origin:......................Country:........................

8.Amount Won............................................................

9.And a Scanned copy of you passport..............................

 

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 15th April 07 All funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as Unclaimed and donated to charity organization in Africa.

 

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with your claims officer. Do not reply any other mails like this on net, as they are a lot of scam artist out there pretending to be us. You may see mails like this do not reply. Do contact our claim agent At once you will be asked to provide some details to enable the office proceed with your winning certificate and file keeping.

 

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Julie Van Hans,
Executive.(Euro Lottery Intern.)

Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).

Copyright © 2007  British Lottery International

 

MRS JULIE VAN HANS,

VICE PRESIDENT

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