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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.
  • +447040117660 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447030401385 (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.
  • thompson_rice@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "UKLOTTERY UKLOTTERY" <notificationoffice_uk1@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:27:32 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
28 TANFIELD ROAD, CROYDON.LONDON.
Ref: KPC/9080118308/02/TCA
Batch: 12/25/0034

FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We happily bring to your notice the results of the British Lottery
International programs held on the 30th Sept, 2005 in London. Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545 188 with Serial
number:
5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently won
you a prize in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved to
claim a total sum of £1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand
Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02/TCA.

This prize is from a total cash prize of USD 75,000,000.00 (Seventy
Five Million Pound) shared amongst the first Fifty (50) lucky winners
in this grand category "B". This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the
largest ever for British Lottery. The estimated £75 Million jackpot
would be the sixth-biggest in U.K. history. The biggest was the £363 Million
jackpots that was shared between two winners in the January 2004 draw
of The Big Game Mega Millions' predecessor.

All participants were selected randomly from various websites on 'The
World Wide Web, www' through a computer draw system and extracted from
over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place annually. For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your prize remitted to
you as required in this grand category "B" terms and conditions of claims.
This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by non winners.Please note that, your
lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative
office in London as indicated in our play coupon.

In view of this, your £1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred
Thousand Pound) prize would be transferred to your designated Bank
account. Our approved agent, The Trans Atlantic Company will
immediately commence on processing your claims, to facilitate the release of
your
prize to you as soon as you make contact with them.
Please be advised as follows: To file for your claim, kindly contact
our Procurement agent with the following details for processing your
claims:

I.Your Full Names
2.Address
3.Telephone/Fax Numbers
4.Age
5.Sex
6.Occupation
7.Nationality
8.Reference/Winning Numbers
********************************************************
Name: Mr.Thompson Rice
E-mail:thompson_rice@myway.com
Phone:+447040117660
Fax: +447030401385
Foreign Services Manager,Trans Atlantic Company,
Release order Department,United Kingdom.
********************************************************
Note that, all claims processes and clearance procedures must be duly
completed early to avoid impersonation and or double claiming.
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our
designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Mandy Jill.
Lottery Co-ordinator.
For: The British Lottery International.

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