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

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Teresa Lottery <british@q8mail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:13:54 +0300
Subject: RE: GOOD NEWS!!!

BRITISH LOTTERY  

14 FRATON ROAD
FULHAM, LONDON
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 21st of April 2006 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. You have 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 report to mrscolebl@netscape.net

within 24hours of reading this mail.
 
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
 
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Teresa Cole
British Lottery Coordinator.

 

 

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