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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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 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.
  • +447040118953 (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.
  • smartball_lottery_uk@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • heritagesecurities@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?big5?q?Smart=20Ball?= <smartball_lottery_uk@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: heritagesecurities@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:07:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Congratulation on your winning notification.


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: smartball_lottery_uk@yahoo.com

FROM: MRS. FLORRENCE ANGEL.

LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

SMARTBALL LOTTERY, UK.



DEAR WINNER,



WINNER OF HIGH STAKES DRAWS



Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the HIGH STAKES DRAWS of SMARTBALL LOTTERY UNITED KINGDOM. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the HIGH STAKES DRAWS SECOOND CATEGORY,which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held on 15th SEPTEMBER 2005 and results are being officially announced

today.



Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 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 55-9-478, with serial number 52-67 drew the winning numbers 05 10 17 19 29 42 (21) and consequently won in the second Category.



You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 4,500,000.00 (four million, five hundred thousand pounds), which is the winning payout for Category B winners. This is from the total prize money of 13.5 million POUNDS shared among the 3 winners in this category.



Your fund is now deposited with our International Funds Transfer agents HERIITAGE FINANCE SECURITY and has been insured in your name. In your best interest and also 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/nonparticipants of this program.



We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year premium stakes draw where you stand a chance of winning up to US$500 million that will be shared amongst 10 winners worldwide; we hope that with a part of your prize you will participate.



Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a bank account of your choice:



DR RAYMOND FINGESI(ESQ)

FINANCE MANAGER,

HERITAGE FINANCE SECURITY

Plains Heritage Center HOUSE

642 HIGH ROAD

LEYTONSTONE

LONDON , GREATER LONDON E113AA,

LONDON UK.

TEL:+44-70-4011-8953

EMAIL: heritagesecurities@yahoo.co.uk



You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or fax within a week of receiving this notice. Failure to do so may warrant immediate 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: REF: SMBUK/7899/8604/05HFS

BATCH NUMBER: G5/B212-8

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

part of our promotions program.



Sincerely,

THE COORDINATOR,

SMARTBALL LOTTERY UK

133 Crosbie Rd

PO Box 9600

St John's NF A1A 3C1. Uk.



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 transfer agent immediately.










- Smart Ball

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