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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.
• 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.
  • premier.world@winning.com
  • james.cook@winning.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Premier Lotto Org" <premier_orglotto@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:33:43 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS..WINNING NOTIFICATION

UK PREMIER LOTTO ORGANIZATION.
15 SILVERVERHIL ROAD, DERBY DE23 6UJ
DERBYSHIRE UNITED KINGDOM
E-MAIL: premier.world@winning.com

Ref. Number: 132/756/4509
Batch Number: 538901527-Bc68
Ticket Number: 27522465896-6453

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce to you as one of the 5 lucky winners in the Premier Lotto World Wide U.K, draw held on the 16th of january 2006. All 5 winners addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 27522465896-6453 with serial number 3772-554 drew lucky numbers 7-14-18-31-45. which consequently won in the 2ND category. Your email address emerged alongside 4 others as a category 2 winner in this year Annual Premier Lotto World Wide U.K & EUROPE Draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out sum of 450,000 EURO. (Four hundred and fifty thousand Euro) only. The following particulars are attached to your claim lotto payment order: we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims have been fully processed and your money Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid multiple claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 50,000,000 international individual email addresses and names from all over the world. This promotional program takes place every five years.

This lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies in Europe as part of their social responsibility to the citizen in the communities where they have operational base. We hope with part of your winnings you will take part in our next Ten Million Euros. UK PREMIER LOTTO ORG.

Please contact the underlisted claims office as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winning:

Name: Dr. James Cook
E-Mail: james.cook@winning.com
Client Service Manager
Premier Lotto Org London.


N.B: Winning Not Acknowledged and claimed within 30 days of notification will be void.

Remember all winning must be claimed not later than 10th of February 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence with the claim officer. winners must send thier name, address, telephone number and means of identification (international passport or drivers licence) to claim officers, via email. to proceed the immediate payment of your prize. Furthermore should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATION!!!

Sincerely,

Ms. Mary Jane
Promotions Manager
Premier Lotto Org World Wide U.K

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