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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.
  • +447040125661 (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.
  • goldenfortunes06@hotmail.com
  • customerservice_rtfbank@yahoo.se

Fraud email example:

From: "golden fortune" <goldenfortunes009@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:54:09 +0000
Subject: YOU ARE A U.K LOTTERY WINNER; CONGRATULATIONS


From: golden fortunes lottery <goldenfortunes06@hotmail.com>
Reply To: customerservice_rtfbank@yahoo.se
Subject: CONGRATULATION,2006 LOTTERY WINNER
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:12 AM
From: golden fortunes lottery <goldenfortunes06@hotmail.com>
Reply To: customerservice_rtfbank@yahoo.se
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS 2005 LOTTERY WINNER
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:10 AM
GOLDEN FORTUNES LOTTERY
106 BOROUGH HIGH STREET
MORGATE EC1
LONDON.
UNITED KINGDOM.


Dear friend,

YOU WON: GBP 2,500,000.00! POUNDS

With utmost joy, we are pleased to inform you of the result of the Golden
Fortunes Lottery International programs held on the 22nd, of December 2005
drew cash Prize of GBP 2,500,000.00 pounds. Your e-mail address attached to
Code number 370011672387-290-02 with batch number 6858/UK drew these lucky
numbers 894-4563-001-764-64-2911, which consequently won in the 1st
category. You have been approved to receive a cash prize of
GBP2,500,000.00 pounds(Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Great British
Pounds).

Be advised that due to incessant mix up in cash prize transfer to previous
winners, we advise that you Keep your winning information confidential until
your claims is been processed and your funds (GBP2,500,000.00) Transferred
to you. This security measure is important; its protocol
meant to avoid double claims, transfer and unwarranted abuse of this program
by other participants.

METHOD OF SELECTING WINNERS:


Participants were selected anonymously through a private ballot system
(computer ballot) from over 35,000 Companies and 70,000 individual e-mail
addresses all over the world. At the final draw your e-mail address Emerged
as the winner of our last jackpot.This is promotional program takes place
bi-annually, and it is promoted and sponsored Orient
software Corporation (Orient Networks). It is met to reward some individuals
and corporations who have devote Their time and resources surfing the world
wide web (www) with their email addresses. Remember, all winning must
be claimed not later than 5 working days from today. After the expiration
of that time frame, if your funds are unclaimed, it will be refunded to us
and included in our next draws.We hope you will use part of your cash
prize to participate in our next $18million draws in March 2006. Lastly,

in order to avoid unnecessary delays/complications with the transfer of your
funds to you, please Always remember to quote your Batch number in all
correspondence with our paying bank (Royal Trust Finance Bank-United
Kingdom). Furthermore, should there be any change of your present address,
please
notify us Immediately so to make the appropriate adjustment.

Congratulations from the management and staffs of Golden Fortunes
Lotteries International.
-----------------------------------------------------
Kindly, immediately, contact our Paying Bank (Royal Trust Finance
Bank-United Kingdom)
for your payment advice.


Send them following e-mail:


I(your names).., with e-mail address..(your e-mail address)..,
contact address..(postal address)., born on.(date of birth/city of
birth)..and batch number:.(quote your batch number).is the winner of
the last Golden Fortunes Lottery draws, with a cash prize of GBP
2,500,000.00 pounds. Kindly advise me with details of the process of the
transfer of my cash prize within the next 5-working days.

Contact details of our Paying Bank:
Contact person: Mr. Patrick Taylor.
Accounting and Remittance Department,
Royal Trust Finance Bank-United Kingdom.
E-mail: customerservice_rtfbank@yahoo.se
Tel: +44-7040125661
Fax: +44-7092844734
Congratulations.
Yours in services,

Scott Frederic.(Lottery Coordinator)
Note: Participants below 21 years are automatically disqualified. All e-mail
transmission/correspondence are 100% protected by our Secure
Socket Layer (SSL) server

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