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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 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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • uk_fredbrawn@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?fred=20brawn?= <uk_fredbrawn@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: f-a-b@accountant.com
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:26:35 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: WINNER CONGRATULATIONS


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: uk_fredbrawn@yahoo.co.uk

FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the

First Category draws of Lucky Dip Lottery, UK. We are happy to

inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First Category, which

is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held on the day prior

to the date of your notification. Participants were selected through a

computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 names/email addresses of

individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe,

Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions

Program. You/Your company, attached to ticket number 6422-5-486, with serial

number 59-18 drew the lucky numbers 33-92-78-05 (18) and consequently

won in the First Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum

pay out of £6,000,000 (Six million, Great Britain Pounds), which is the

winning payout for Category A winners. This is from the total prize

money of £12,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

You are to contact your transfer agents Fleming Accounting and Brokers

UK Ltd for due processing and remittance of your fund to a nominated

account of your choice. To avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind,

we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from

public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been

completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our

security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by

participants/non participants of this program. We also wish to bring to your

notice our mid 2006 premium stakes draw where you stand a chance of

winning up to £50 million; we hope that with a part of your prize you will

participate. Please contact your claims agent immediately with the

contact information below:

MR.ASHLEY COLE

Financial Director

Fleming Accounting and Brokers UK Ltd

56 High Street, Lochee,

Dundee, Tayside, DD3 4AU

United Kingdom

Tel: 44 7040-104-135

Fax: 44 7005-976-340

Email: f-a-b@accountant.com

You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or fax within two

week of receiving this notice. Failure to do so may warrant

disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your reference

and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your

correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: TGA-4GA-69889 BATCH NUMBER: R3/A312-59

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being

part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

LUCKY DIP LOTTERY, UK

11-24 CHURCH STREET WEST,

WOKING, SURREY GU21 6HT.

TEL: 44 7005-806-965

N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will

result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your

claims agent immediately.




- fred brawn

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