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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Judy Coleman" <nationallotto@nationallottery.co.uk>
Reply-To: bejeslawfirm@walla.com
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:12:32 +0100
Subject: Your Winning Notification (Happy New Year)

The National Lottery
Suite 179 1007
West/Zuld, L70 1NL
Zwolle Holland
(Customer Services)
Ref: DEUK/9383/8161/99
Batch: GI/SE12-59
Government Accredited Licensed lottery promoters.
International Promotions/Prize Award Department
http://lottery.co.uk/res

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
national lottery held on the 3rd January, 2006. 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
national lotto game draw Consequently, you have therefore been approved for
a total pay out of £1,000,000 (one million pounds sterlings) only. In order
to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your
reference number and batch numbers:
1,Ticket
2, Batch 7499-4206-5876
3, Ref: 739801527-Nll
4, lucky numbers 94-1-537-97-31-809
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of
this, your £1,000,000 would be released to you by any of our payment
offices in Europe.
To file for your claim, please contact

Green Haward
Telephone number +31 -647-836-728
Email: bejeslawfirm@walla.com
Bejes law & Associates

This will enable the office of bejes & asscociates to send the claims
application form (A4) to you the Beneficiary.you can confirm your winnings
http://lottery.co.uk/res
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part
of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program. Please be warned. Remember, all winnings must be
claimed not later than January 10th, 2006, after this date, unclaimed funds
will be returned to the national Lotto
Good luck from me and members of staff of the NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs Judy Coleman
Online coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

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