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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447023057799 (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.
  • claimsoffice@london.net

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Elizabeth Foster" <luckywinner77@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:59:55 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION


UK ONLINE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
In Conjunction with The National Organizing
Committe of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006
organisationskomitee Deutschland
koniginstrabe 23,80539 Munchen.

From: The Desk Of the Promotions Manager,
UK ONLINE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL: Prize Awards DepartmentReference:
UK/9420X2/68, Batch: 074/05/ZY369

We gladly wish to inform you of the draws of the UK ONLINE LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL in conjunction with the National Organizing Committee of the
2006 FIFA World Cup held on the 4th of January 2005 in Munich Germany.You
along with 187 others were selected winners under draws 6+J in our monthly
program which will feature as run up to the games next year when you will be
due for the final Grand draw.However your e-mail address attached to ticket
number 508-7895-4456-224 with serial numbers 5223-54 drew the lucky numbers
16-43-85-33-15-73 and consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!
Please be informed that all participants in this UK ONLINE LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot
system drawn from over 500,000 companies and 50,000,000 individual e-mail
addresses.This Online promotion is Organized by the host country in
collaboration with FIFA. Funds for the draws have been contributed by the
major sponsors of the games which include
adidas,Hyundai,FujiFilm,MasterCard,Gillette,Cocacola,Emirates
Air, Continental,Toshiba,Mcdonalds and a host of others. Due to the computer
mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you keep this award
strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your
money remitted.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. Also find all other
relevant UK ONLINE LOTTERY promotion Information below: Reference:
UK/9420X2/68, Batch: 074/05/ZY369 Zonal Draw No: IMSA2-040Grand Draw No:
14219 You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of One
Million, Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds (£1.500.000.00 GBP) in
cash credited to file No:LP/26510460037/02. For all our international
winners the value of the amount comes to ($2,708,893.89 USD) Two Million
Seven Hundred and Eight Thousand, Eight Hundred and Ninety Three United
States Dollars and Eight-nine cents. For due Processing and remittance of
your prize money,remember that you must contact your claim Agent on or
before 14th of January 2006. After this date, all funds will be returned as
unclaimed.

NOTE:
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to
Quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your
correspondences.Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do
inform your claims agent as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all
our staff and thank you for being part of our Promotions
program.

Sincerely,

Miss Elizabeth Foster

To file for your claim, please contact our Payment Officer

Mr. Martyn Hill
UK ONLINE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
P O Box 1010
Liverpool,L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: + 44-702-305-7799
Fax: + 44-870-478-3172
EMAIL: claimsoffice@london.net

N.B. You are automatically disqualified if you are below 18 years of age.



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