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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: uklottery@o1ok.com
Reply-To: micheal.murrow@winning.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:55:27 -0600
Subject:


British Raffle Nominees(BRN):
28 Tanfield Road,
Croydon, London
United Kingdom

Ref No.: BRN/421ONI/05
Batch No.: BRN/23/136-A


WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the BRN programs held in the month of December 2005 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: BRN-033 6123 234 with Serial number: 005404 drew the lucky numbers: 31 06 26 13 35 07 11, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of £450,000 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds) in cash credited to file BRN/F/75543340/05. This is from a total cash prize of 30 Million pounds, shared amongst the Ten (10) lucky winners in this category. This year BRN Program Jackpot (Lotto 6/49 and Lotto Super 7) one of the largest ever British Lottery.

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 £450,000 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds) would be released to you.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with them.

All participants were selected randomly from the internet through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 websites. This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential untill your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous person(s).

To file for your claim, please contact UK National Lottery Coordinator

Mr. Patrick Herand,

Coordinator, UK National Lottery

1 Plough Place, London EC4A 1DE

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference numbers and batch numbers on the top right corner 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,

Tracy Campbell

Zonal Coordinator

NB: All claims are to be made within 14 days from confirmation of this message.

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