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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:
  • "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.
  • mailsaver774@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Marris=20Connie?= <mailsaver774@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: mconnie@katamail.com
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 04:42:01 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Result of 30/12/05


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mailsaver774@yahoo.co.uk

From: Mrs. Marris Connie

Her Majesty National Lottery

Civic Centre

High Road Wood Green

N22 8LE, England-UK


File number: HMNL-724-85915

Batch number: 12/25/FLPD34


We happily announce to you the draw of Her Majesty National Lottery programs held on the 30th of December 2005 in England U.K. Your e-mail address was matched to

ticket number: B9564 75604545 with Serial number 97560 drew the winning: 59/84/26/17/35, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 500,000.00 GBP(Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds Only) in cash credited to File number: HMNL-724-85915.This is from a total cash prize of 10,000,000.00 GBP (Ten Million Great Britain Pound) shared amongst the first Twenty (20) lucky winners in this category World-wide. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Euro booklet representative office in England as indicated in your play coupon.


In view of this, your 500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britian Pounds Only) would be released to you by our payment center in England. Our

Payment Center will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your winning amount as soon as you contact them. Be informed that all participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 12,000,000 companies and individuals.


This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information strictly confidential till your claims is

processed and your winning amount is remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to

avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be informed that all winning must be claimed

before 30 days upon despatch this information and to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference and batch numbers in

any correspondences with us or our payment center.


You are advised to acknowledge the receipt of this information in order to give you a guide line on how to contact our payment center for your payment.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program that has successfully won this competition. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery Program.


Sincerely,

Mrs. Marris Connie

Coordinator


N.B: This information transmitted is only for the person or Entity to which it is addressed and may contain Confidential or privileged materials. Any

review, Retransmission, dissemination or other use of this Information, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information, by person or entities other than the Intended recipient is prohibited.



- Marris Connie

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