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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.
  • +447024071073 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447005938406 (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.
  • elotassetmanagementltd@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "overseas gambling board" <uklotto_win@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:10:19 +0000
Subject: RE: Congratulations you're our Winner

BRITISH LOTTERY OFFICE



Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN



Batch: 12/25/0034






WINNING NOTIFICATION




Dear Mr/Mrs/Sir/Madam:





We happily announce to you the draw of the British Lottery International
programs held on the 24th of January in London. Your e-mail address attached
to ticket number:564 75600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky
numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category.



Youhave therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £ 500,000.00GBP
(Five Hundred Thousand Great Britian Pounds Sterlling) in cash credited to
fileKPC/9080118308/02/SHYN. This is from a total cash prize of
£10,000,000.00GBP shared amongst the first Twenty (20) lucky winners in this
category.







All participants were selected randomly from 'World Wide Web' site through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This
promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to
keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and
money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.






Note that all claims process and clearance procedures must be duly completed
early to avoid impersonation arising to the issue of double claim. To avoid
unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch
numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent in the 2nd
category,you are advised to keep this notice to yourself because we shall
not be responsible for any divert of funds as a result of you disclosing
your lottery award details,I hereby advice you to contact thus:



MR EDWARD HUDSON

Elot Asset Management ltd
Regency House
62-66 Deansgate,
Manchester M3 2EN
United Kingdom.
Tel +448715042416, +447024071073
Fax: +44 -7005-938-406
Fax: +44 -7005-938-107

Email: elotassetmanagementltd@yahoo.co.uk


Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.





ELEANOR CONANT (Ms.),

Director.

International Promotions Unit,
OVERSEAS GAMBLING BOARD,

Airport Hale Rd Halebarns

Altrincham Cheshire WA15 8XW UK

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