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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• 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.
  • @yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "uk lottery" <uklottonotification556@msn.com>
Reply-To: kelvinnoob4567@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:32:26 +0000
Subject: WINNER!!!

	TRANSGLOBE ONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK. GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!! TRANSGLOB ONLINE?INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration LT12).

                         

TRANSGLOBE.   LOTTERY .INC                  

 PROMOTION MANAGER                              

 

 

 Central Hong Kong, corporate headquarters                                   
 P.O.Box 220   Hong Kong.                                 
               
                                                                 

      

 

                WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

Security Code No.ULI/APRXX/05
 Ref: UK/9420X/68
 Batch: 07405/ZY369 

Winning no: GB8701/LPRC

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

 

Dear Lucky Winner,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the December, 2005 from the United Kingdom International Lottery programme. Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses.

 

Your name was attached to ticket number; 5647560054 serial number 5360/02 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of UK1,000,000.00.(ONE MILLION GREAT BRITAIN POUNDS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of UK1,000,000.00GBP

 

All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions

program which is conducted annually.

 

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base.

 

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within ourUnited kingdom representative office in liverpool, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize ofUK1,000,000.00GBP will be released to you from this regional branch office in LIVERPOOL

 

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our next year high stakes for UK1.3GBP Billion international draw.

 

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE, Simply contact our agent,MRS SHARON WHITE at : transglobelottery_agent@yahoo.co.uk.  to file for your claim .

 

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily.

 

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel, Please Be Warned.

 

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the JANAURY 20TH 2006; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity.

 

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Best Regards
Richard  Woodgate. (co-ordinator)
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT  YOUR CLAIMS  AGENT  AT transglobelottery_agent@yahoo.co.uk.  ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF
THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.  

       

Richard  Woodgate

Controller