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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • jhn_graham@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lottery Manager" <lotterymanager1012@msn.com>
Reply-To: jhn_graham@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:28:34 +0000
Subject: Happy Winning.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Support Center,Bevan House,51 Bevan Avenue
Conwy LL28 5AF,United Kingdom

REF: UKNL/26510460037/04
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD
TICKET NUMBER:023-0148-790-459
LUCKY NUMBERS: 09-11-21-39-40-46-35

ATTENTION: Sir/Madam
RE: LOTTERY RESULT

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of winners of the UK

NATIONAL LOTTERY, THE UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMS held in Croydon, London.

You email address was attached to ticket number 023-0148-790-459, with
serial number 5063-11 which drew lucky numbers 09-11-21-39-40-46-35,
and consequently you won the lottery in the 2nd category star prize.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out Of
$3,000,000.00(Three million united states dollars) credited to file REF
NO. UKNL/26510460037/04.

This is from total prize money Of $30,000,000.00 shared among the ten
International winners in this second category star prize.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Websites
through computer drawn system and extracted from over 100,000
companies as part of International Promotions Program by using a
hi-tech advanced email address generator software with 99.99% efficiency,
which is
conducted annually. Your lucky winning number falls within our UK
representative
office in London, in view of this, your $3,000,000.00 united states dollars
would be released to you by our preferred payment center in London.
Our fiducial/claims agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For
security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is
processed and your money remitted to you.

To file for your claim, please contact our London payment centre
fiduciary/claims Agent, John Graham, email address is:
jhn_graham@hotmail.com and request for a processing form.

For due processing of your prize Money, please remember to quote your
Reference, batch and ticket numbers in every one of your
Correspondences with your agent.

Furthermore, should there be any Change of your email address, do
inform your fiducial/claims agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
Alice Grene
Zonal Co-ordinator



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