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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.
  • +447031845691 (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.
  • claimsagentdep@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mark_spencer@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 07:13:12 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?LOTTERY=20WINNING=20NOTIFICATION?=

NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
79 BOVILL ROAD
LONDON. SE23 1EL.
Ref: EGS/2251256003/02
Batch: 14/0017/1PD
Attn:Sir/Madam
WINNING NOTIFICATION
The board of directors and entire member of staff of the National
Lottery
wishes to inform you of the result of the (Email Address Ballot)
online
Sweepstakes international program held at the British Headquarter.
Your email account have been picked as a winner of Six Hundred Thousand
Pounds Sterling (£600,000.00) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total sum of Four Million, Two hundred Thousand Pounds
Sterling
(£4,200,000.00) shared amongst seven winners. This results is now
released
to you on wednesday 3 may, 2006 and your email address attached to
ticket

number:
56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers
05-08-12-24-28-21
and bonus ball 22 in the Lotto, to check your results online click on
this
link http://lottery.co.uk/res/ participants were selected through a
computer
ballot system drawn from
Microsoft users from company and individual email address users.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your
claims
have been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this
program. For the release of your winning, kindly contact your claims
supervisory
officer at the British Lottery Head Quarters, Payment Release Order
Department

Contact Person:Mark Spencer
Tel :+44 703 184 5691
+44 -795-535-3183
or email
Email:claimsagentdep@netscape.net
You will be required to quote your lucky number,for confirmation on
your
winnings.All winning must be claimed not later than 3weeks after
reciept
of this mail. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to
European
Union Treasury as unclaimed prize for good cause.Please note in order
to
avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote
your
reference number in all correspondence.You are therefore advised to
give
the following informations to the fiduciary via
email,fax or telephone
1. Full name and address.
2. Country.
3. Tel and fax number.
4. Occupation.
5. Languages Spoken.
6.Religion
Congratulations from the entire member of staff and thank you for being
part of our email account users program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Julie Van Hans,
Executive (International Sweepstakes).
Note: Participants below 21 years are automatically disqualified. All
e-mail
transmission/ correspondence are 100% protected by our Secured Socket
Layer
(SSL) server. The NLS is an institution under public law. Therefore,
the
lottery contract is concluded between the lottery participant and the
public
law institution NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROGRAM which is represented
through
its Director Dr. Gerhard Rombach at 79 Bovill Road, London. SE23 1EL.
United
Kingdom, trades register HRA 6230

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