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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.
• 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.
  • +447031846394 (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.
  • claimsdivision02@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: awarddepartment_@ny.com
Date: 6 May 2006 23:04:09 -0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR E-MAIL ID WON YOU £500,000.00.....CONTACT PAY OFFICE NOW..


The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
United Kingdom,London.

Gambling Board Of Great Britain Licensed,Online Ballot Lottery (Registration 70339411) Registered Under The Data Protection ACT. REF

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION. AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM........NO TICKET WAS SOLD.

This is to inform you of the release of the UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY online Sweepstakes result draw (#1064) held on the 4th Of May, 2006. Your email ID identified with REF Number: 65149/347-5647/LMO with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 04 08 16 19 34 40 38 (bonus no.42) These numbers where entered for you via Random Numbers Generators (RNG) Which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category .Your email ID which was among the 3,000,000 email addresses that were automatically entered for the online LOTTERY was submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000.00 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterling ) This is from a total cash prize of £8,377,290 shared amongst the first three (3)jackpot lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from only Microsoft users from over 20,000 companies and 3,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world.To claim your lottery winning please contact our assigned agent below :

CONTACT NAME: David Morret
CITY/ COUNTRY: London, United Kingdom.
TEL: +44- 703-184-6394
FAX:+44-704-786-671
EMAIL:claimsdivision02@netscape.net

Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 14days of receiving this notification. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake, this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please, remember to quote your winning informations found below in all correspondence.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

WINNING INFORMATIONS
Ref Number:65149/347-5647/LMO
Batch Number: 2637/2312-LNI/2006
Serial number: 5368/02

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Ann Douf
(Online Lottery Co-ordinator)

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.
This E-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Information that is privileged and confidential .
If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited.

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