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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.
  • +447023055172 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447030403379 (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.
  • claimsfiduciary@blackburnmail.com
  • alfredwensley@blackburnmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <officiallottogames03@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:47:50 +0000
Subject: Re:INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS(CONTACT OUR FIDUCIARY OFFICER)

FROM:THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
RAFFLE DRAWS PROMOTIONS 2006
REFERENCE:/DHK110/
BATCH:/NBH12/
LUCKY NUMBER: 04-08-16-23-28-47-34

Dear Winner,

We are delighted to inform you on the result of Mega Draws Email
Lottery Promotion notification, Which is part of our promotional
draws. Held on the 14th JANUARY, 2006 and that you were one of the
TWENTY FIVE LUCKY WINNERS and your e-mail address attached to Lucky-numbers
04-08-16-23-28-47-34 (bonus No.), and Serial-number 13-1003 which
consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved
for a lump sum payout of £4,000,000.00(FOUR MILLION GREAT BRITAIN
POUNDS)

CONGRATULATIONS!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Please be informed that all participants were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn from over 300,000 company and 50,000,000
individual email addresses and names from all over the world. For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part
of our precautionarymeasure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program. Please be warned.To file for your claim, please
contact our FIDUCIARY OFFICER:

REV. DAVID .J. RICHMOND
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O Box 101
THE MARINA OFFICE,ST PETERS
YACHT BASIN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,
NE6 1HX
ENGLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
TEL: +44-702-305-5172, +44-704-011-7707
FAX: + 44-703-040-3379
EMAIL: claimsfiduciary@blackburnmail.com

Please do remember, all winning must be claimed not later than two
weeks of this notification. After this time all unclaimed funds will
be included in the next stake.

Note: For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claims is processed and your money
remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your
prize.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.In order to avoid
unnecessary
delays and complications, if you wish to file in for your claims,
you are therefore requested to quote the following claims requirements
to the above reply email address.

Remember to quote your Reference, Batch, and Wining Number, in every
one of your correspondence to our FIDUCIARY OFFICER. This email
notification is not publicly notified in out-checking hackers from our
website lottery draws information.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program. Furthermore, should there be
any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Your's Sincerely,
MR ALFRED WENSLEY
THE COORDINATOR,
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O Box 101
THE MARINA OFFICE,ST PETERS
YACHT BASIN, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,
NE6 1HX
ENGLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Tel: +44-702-305-5173
Fax: +44-703-040-3379
Email: alfredwensley@blackburnmail.com

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