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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.
  • +447023057079 (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.
  • mrdavidadams@inbox.com
  • headofficelotto@katamail.com
  • drmeyer04@katamail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "goodwill godfed" <goodwill_godfrd@msn.com>
Reply-To: drmeyer44@katamail.com
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:08:36 +0000
Subject: National Lottery Headquarters:

National Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
an Affiliate of watergate inc.
28 Tanfield Road,
Croydon. London
Ref: EAASL/731OYI/02
Batch: 4/05/DC34

You can as well reply to me through this mail address for more information:
mrdavidadams@inbox.com or headofficelotto@katamail.com



WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw of the National Sweepstake
Lottery International programs held on the 21th of DEC 2005 in
London.Your Name and e-mail address attached to ticket number: 964
75600545866 with Serial number 8388/02 drew the lucky umbers:
52-6-26-13-35-9,which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category.You are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of
£5,000.000( Five Million Pound) in cash credited to file
KPC/6080118308/02.This is from a total cash prize of £75 Million pound.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play
coupon.In view of this, your £5000000( Five Million
Pound) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in London.Our agent
will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your
funds to you as soon as you make contact with him.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site
through 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 money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to
claimyour prize. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
elements.

Please be warned.To file for your claim, please contact The Officer
incharges with the below details for processing of your claims.
OFFICER: DR GERALD MEYER,FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
EMAIL: drmeyer04@katamail.com
tel : +447023057079 +447023057056

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 staffs
of this program.Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
Sincerely,

David Adams.
EURO-ASIAN Zonal Coordinator

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