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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.
  • snlclaimoffice2@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rose Woods" <draws_snl@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: snlclaimoffice2@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 06:17:42 +0000
Subject: OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY.
P O Box 2450 South Bridge,
E70 1NL Edinburgh.
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Service)

TUESDAY MAY 1ST 2007

DEAR WINNER:
OFFICIAL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to announce you as one of the 4 lucky

winners
in THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY draws (#906) held

12pm THURSDAY
08TH MARCH 2007 here in Scotland United Kingdom, Your

e-mail address
attached to email-ticket number ( 97858355Z9), with

serial number
9241/08, drew the lucky numbers (05)-

(50)-(211)-(17)-(11)-(41)
bonus (#09) which subsequently won you the lottery in

the 1ST category
in this month's draw. Our winners are arranged into

four different
categories with different winning prizes accordingly

in each category.
They are arranged in this format below:

CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES
1st. 4 GBP.523,000:00 each
2nd. 10 GBP.120,000:00 each
3rd. 35 GBP.75,000:00 each
4th. 55 GBP.50,000:00 each

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a

total pay out
of GBP523,000 Great British Pounds Sterling ( Five

Hundred And Twenty
Three Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling) only.

YOUR WINNING REF: UK-EG/8869G1/988

WINNING BATCH: EG67/298/07

This is from a total cash prize of GBP 2.092.000.00

(Two Million and
Ninety Two Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling)

shared amongst the
firstfour (4) lucky winners in this category. All 4

lucky winning addresses
were randomly selected from World Wide Web sites

through Computer ballot
system extracted from over 100,000 international

emails, unions,
associations,and corporate bodies that are listed

online. This promotion takes
place Annually. In view of this, your GBP 523,000

Pounds ( Five Hundred And
Twenty Three Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling)

will be released to you
as soon as you contact our Claims Department Manager .

He will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your

funds as soon as you contact
him/her.


Please contact our Claims Department Manager under

listed to
file for your claim. He will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your funds as

soon as you contact
him

Mr. Steve Harper
Claims Department Manager
THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
Email: snlclaimoffice2@yahoo.co.uk


Note: Endeavour to email our Claims Department Manager

and Provide him
with the following informations to complete claims

verification and
Validation process to enable him validate your

winnings/prize money to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him

with these
informations listed below.

Full Names:
Winning Numbers:
Ticket Number:
Email Address:
Telephone Number:
Fax Number:
Complete Mailing Address:
Sex:
Age:
A brief description of yourself:

Unvalidated winnings after Twenty-nine days of winning

notification
will be termed invalid and void. Good luck from me and

members of
staff of THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY

Yours faithfully,

Rose Woods (Mrs)
Online co-ordinator,
For: SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY DEPARTMENT.

IF YOU ARE BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE YOU WILL BE

DISQUALIFIED
AUTOMATICALLY.

THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY Awards is proudly

sponsored
by financial Corp's the evergreen group and a

conglomeration of other
international IT companies. THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL

LOTTERY
internet draw is held annually, and is organized to

encourage the use
of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud

to say that over
200 Million Pounds are won every decade in more than

150 countries
worldwide.

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