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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:

• 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.
  • +447031851858 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704795779 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr SMITH HALMITON UK LOTTERY AGENT NUMBER 276 <mr_smith_276@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 17:00:11 +0100 (BST)
Subject: REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR PAYMENT



British National Lottery
Lottery Headquarters:
Customerservice
33 Yatch Basin Marina Office,
Upon Tyne Newcastle London





ATTN:


Kindly accept my congratulations for being selected as one of the lucky winners.
We are in receipt of your mail and we wish to inform you that all arrangments have been finally concluded to effect the transfer of your winnings to your account details once we finish the verification exercise.Do note that we recently took delivery of the total winnings from our sponsors.

You are advised as a matter of urgency to provide us with the following informations so that we will proccess your clerance and issue same to our paying bankers for them to make the neccessary transfer to your account details.

To process your claims you are hereby to fill this aforementioned details belows:


REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR PAYMENT


FIRST NAME:....................

MIDDLE NAME:...................

LAST NAME: ..................

DATE OF BIRTH:…..................

MARITAL STATUS (M)...... (D)...... (S)........

SEX: FEMALE...... MALE......

OCCUPATION:......................

HOME ADDRESS:: ..............

I.D NO...................

STATE: ..................

ZIP CODE:...................

COUNTRY : ..................

NATIONALITY :...................

TELEPHONE :..................

FAX: ..................

Reference Number: ..................

Batch Number: ..................
winning Number ..................

winning amount:...................


I WANT TO BE PAID BY

(1) (BANK TO BANK TRANSFER)

(2) (ON LINE BANK TRANSFER)





BANK NAME: ..................

BANK............................

ACCOUNT/NUMBER: ..................

SWIFT CODE: ..................

BANK ADDRESS: ....................

CITY: ..................

COUNTRY: ...........

BANK/TELEPHONE/NUMBER................

FAX:NUMBER...........................

As soon as the above details are received, it will be taken to the verification department for submission as the department requested for official documentation of your details which will enable the approval and issuance of your winning Certificate and other documents which will be sent to you.


Remember that due to the maximum time frame allowed for winners to claim their prizes, you do not need to waste time in claiming your winning fund. This is why you have to comply with instructions given to you as swiftly as possible to enable you receive your money soon.

Kindly state clearly your winning details to avoid making payments to a wrong person

Congratulations





Best Regard,
MR SMITH HALMITON
Mr. SMITH HALMITON
UK LOTTERY AGENT NUMBER:276
TeL:+44-7031851858
:+44-7031909860
FAX:+44-8704795779













Agatha Fensterer <fenstereragatha30@germanmail.info> wrote:
Dear Sir,

Please excuse me but my English writing is not so really perfect.

Frankly I am a little mixed-up because I have been requested to get in touch with several mail addresses regarding a private and imperative issue. Can you please read the attached email and inform me whether I am finally in contact with the right party to help me? I am just a little unsure.

Ms Agatha Fensterer



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