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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim 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 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.
  • elot_financial@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ukoverseas Lottery" <ukoverseaslottery102@msn.com>
Reply-To: elot_financial@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:01:07 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION !!!

Dear Winner,



RE: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION



We are pleased to notify you of the release today as dated of the "UK's
Overseas Lottery
International Promotions programme held on Jan 1st 2006 .

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a
pool of over 25,000
names of distinguished professionals drawn from Europe, America, Asia,
Australia, New Zealand,

Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our
international promotions
programme conducted annually to encourage prospective overseas entries. We
hope with part of your

prize awards, you will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots. The
result of our computer
draw 844 selected your name and email address attached to e-Ticket Number
034-22478556 with
serial number 129, which drew the lucky number 06-09-13-15-40-43-02 and
consequently won the
lottery grand prize award in the 3rd category.

Therefore, you have won a lottery jackpot prize awards of &pound;850,950.00
(Eight Hundred and
Fifty Thousand, Nine Hundred and Fifty pounds Sterling Only) in cash prize
credited to file Ref.
No: UKNL/255457004/04. This is from the total prize of &pound; 18,486,220.
00 (Eighteen Million,
Four Hundred and Eighty Six Thousand, Two Hundred and Twenty Pounds
Sterlings) shared among the Thirty-Eight overseas lucky winners in this
category as part of our promotional programme for
2004.

Your prize award has been insured in your name and is ready for claim. To
begin your claims
therefore, you are advised to expeditiously contact our licensed and
accredited claim agent for
Overseas Lottery Winners within a period of 21 days (date of this letter
inclusive) for the
processing of your winning and remittance to your designated bank account
after all statutory
obligations have been satisfactorily dispensed with.

Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated Period
may be forfeitted to
the pool without further notice.You may wish to establish contact via e-mail
with the particulars
presented below citing the batch and reference numbers to this letter.
Telephone lines are open

between the hours of 8.00am - 7.30pm on Monday through Friday


Customer Service Unit,
Elot Financial Reconciliation Inc.,
Fax No:
Email: elot_financial@yahoo.com
Contact person: MR JACK SMITH

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the
end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to
maintain the strictest
level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems
associated with
fraudulent cliams.

CONGRATULATION !!!

At your disposal, we remain.

Very Truly Yours,

MARY STEWART (Mrs.),

Director.

International Promotions Unit,

UK OVERSEAS LOTTERY,

Airport Hale Rd Halebarns

Altrincham Cheshire WA15 8XW UK

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