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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
  • freeuk_lottouk@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "sherylcrawford1" <sherylcrawford1@canada.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:35:43 -0800
Subject: YOU HAVE WON AN INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY !





An Affiliate of the UK National Lottery
355 Birmingham Road, Wylde Green,
SuttonCold Field, West Midlands, B72 IDL.
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/5+B
Batch No.: BL040804BLUK
Winning No.: 01-05-06-31-33-41




WINNING NOTICE
We happily announce to you the draws of the Euro-Asian Big
Lottery
International programs held on the 12th of January 2006 here
in United Kingdom in which you and forty nine (49) others
were selected as winners under draws B6/6.Your e-mail
address attached to ticket
number:08-04-33-38-BL-UK with Serial number BL040811/04 drew
the lucky numbers:01-05-06-31-33-41,which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category(5+B).


All participants were selected randomly from Internet sites
through
computer drawn system and from 50,000 companies.This
promotion takes
place quarterly.You have therefore been approved to claim a
total sum of £413,267.00 (Four Hundred and Thirteen
Thousan Two Hundred and Sixty Seven GBP) as your winning
prize. This is from a total cash prize of 12% lottery tax
worth £549 million per year shared among the Fifty(50)
lucky winners quarterly.


Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our
European
booklet representative office inEurope as indicated in the
results. In view of this,your £413,267.00 will be paid to
you upon confirmation and clarification by our payment
office in Europe. Our European agent will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds
as soon as you contact them. To avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please quote your Ticket, Reference and
Batch numbers in any correspondences with our designated
agent or us.


Please include your telephone numbers when contacting the
agent. You
should contact:Mr.Henry Corn
Email:freeuk_lottouk@yahoo.co.uk
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of
this program.
Thank you for being part of ourpromotional lottery program.

Sincerely yours,

Ms. Sheryl Crawford.
Customer Service


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