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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.
  • +447031847147 (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.
  • claimsagent_thomasbrown@stalag13.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Samuel Roore" <sam_powerballlottery@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:00:55 +0000
Subject: CONGRTULATIONS!!! YOU JUST WON

BRITISH LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!! BRITISH WEB LOTTERY IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration Z720633X).   BRITISH WEB LOTTERY P.O.Box 1010 28 TANFIELD ROAD, CROYDON.LONDON   Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP Batch Nr: PBL2348974321 Date: 11th /1/2006 Dear Consultation Prize Winner,   BRITISH LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS NOTICE   Europe/ America private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors, BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS International,officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of the 31st DECEMBER -2005 BRITISH WEB LOTTERY Wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in The CROYDON.LONDON.   We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 45 lucky consultation prize winners.Your email ID identified with coupon No.PBL2348974321 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.   Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have won a consultation cash prize of US $2,500,000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) The BRITISH WEB LOTTERY . have approved a payout of your consultation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to  you by the official Payment Agency Board.   For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU Information Officer Mr. Thomas Brown  who has been assigned to assist you, with the following information.   1.Name in full: 2.Home Address: 3.Age: 4.Occupation: 5.Phone Number: 6.Present Country: 7.Sex:   Contact E-mail: claimsagent_thomasbrown@stalag13.com   Tel: Number +447031847147 Fax Number +447092873353   Officer Mr Thomas Brown   Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consultation prize winning,we hope you will partake our forth coming BRITISH WEB LOTTERY -Wheel Email-games. ................................................................................................... NB: In accordance with the BRITISH WEB LOTTERY -wheel E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky consultation prize Winners.This notification also contains information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky number along with the winning informations you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any part

CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE MEMBERS AND STAFF OF BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Dr. Samuel Roore  (Ph.D)
(Group Coordinator)
NATIONAL LOTTERY.

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