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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447011139641 (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.
  • walkerjones006@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: CHARITY LOTTERY PROMOTION <walkerjones006@yahoo.es>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:38:38 +0200
Subject:


UK CHARITY FOUNDATION AWARD PROMOTION
Suite 154, Clarendon Road, Borehamwood,
Hertfordshire, WD61JF, London
United Kingdom.


Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you that you have won our International Charity
Award of US$1,000,000 (One million US Dollars) during the 2007 Global
Internet Summit titled\" Discovering Greatness, held in the London,

United Kingdom. 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 UK
CHARITY FOUNDATION PROMOTION LOTTERY draw. No tickets were sold.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
US$1,000,000.00 only. The following particulars are attached to your
lotto
payment order:

(i) Winning Serial Number: 800-002-136-2007
(ii) Email Ticket Number: UK/L.A754/22/76
(iii) Lotto Code Number: CL.109006UK
(iv) File Ref Number: ICA/5-GIS/2007UK

Our senior Awards Officer will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the redemption of your rightful winning funds as soon as
possible for the immediate transfer, delivery or handing over of your
winnings to you:

Please contact our under listed Senior Awards Officer as soon as
possible
for the immediate release of your winnings, via his email address as
presented below:

Awards Officer:
Mr.Walker Jones
Email: walkerjones006@yahoo.es
Phone#: (+44) 7011139641

N.B: Steps to claiming your prize;

1. Contact our senior Awards Officer via email immediately you receive
this notification to begin the claims process.

2. You are required to send your full name(s) as it should appear on
the
Certificate of Winning that would be issued to you, and fill the below
Non-Private Information when contacting our senior Awards Officer.

1. FULL NAME(S): ______________________________
2. ADDRESS, ________________
3. SEX: ________________________________________
4. AGE: _______________________________________
5. OCCUPATION: _______________________________
6. COMPANY: _____________________ B. POSITION HELD: ____________
7. COUNTRY :_______________________________
8. TELEPHONE NUMBER: ________________________
9. File Ref Number:____________________________
10.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS: ___________________


3. Also quote your File reference Number as given above while
contacting
our Senior Awards Officer. This is very important and compulsory on
first
correspondence with our Senior Awards Officer.

On behalf of the entire UK CHARITY FOUNDATION stakeholders, I say
congratulations!!!

Sincerely,
Cathie Jones.
Promotion Manager.

PURPOSE OF UK CHARITY FOUNDATION ONLINE AWARDS LOTTERY
===============================================================
To encourage internet users.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The UK CHARITY FOUNDATION, a non governmental organization (NGO) is
proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group,
Toshiba,Dell computers and a conglomeration of other international IT
companies.

The UK CHARITY FOUNDATION PROMOTION LOTTERY 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 15 Million dollars are won
annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

If you do not wish to accept your prize, you should disregard this
Notification. Unclaimed Prize Money will be recalled and put back into
the
Foundations projects.

Contact our award officer immediately. --

Anti-fraud resources:

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