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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:
  • "foreign service manager" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • drjustine_claimagentsuk@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "brian hunt" <brianht7206@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:02:00 +0000
Subject: Your email has won X980,840 .



National Lottery

P O Box 1010

Liverpool, L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)

WINNINGNOTIFICATION


Re f: LSUK/2031/8161/05

Batch: R3/A312-59a

CATEGORY. 2nd category

We happily announce to you the by-anual online draw of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International Program held on Thursday 1st June
06.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9564 75604545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:01,03,06,22,23,39 & bonus 21.
Which subsequently won you one of the lucky dip prizes. You have therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of £980,840 (Nine Hundred and Eighty
Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Great British Pounds ) in cash credited to
file LSUK/2031/8161/05. This is from a total cash prize of £ 47,305,800
(Forty Seven Million Three Hundred and Five Thousand Eight Hundred Great
British Pounds), shared amongst the Twenty (20) lucky winners in this
category.

LOTTO PRIZE BREAKDOWN

Draw date :Thursday 1st June 06.Your Prize Money £980,840.00

NUMBER OF MATCHES. No OF WINNERS. £s PER WINNER.
TOTAL
Match 6 1 £5,254,612 £5,254,612
Match 5 plus bonus 20 £980,840 £19,616,800
Match 5 576 £11,754 £6,770,304
Match 4 33686 £465 £15,663,990
Match 3 604272 £10 £6,042,706
Totals 638555 £47,305,706

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the
World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions, associations, companies and corporate bodies that are listed
online.

Our corresponding agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security
reasons,you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till
your claim is processed and your money 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.
Please
be warned !!!!!!

To file for your claim, please contact our corresponding agent immediately
you read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund, contact
information is as follow: -

Dr. Justine Schole
Foreign Service Manager
Overseas Subscribers Agents
Freedom Park Building Unit 1441
Johannesburg (Gauteng) 2001
South Africa
Tel: + 27-72-314-6099
E-mail: drjustine_claimagentsuk@yahoo.com

Please be informed that all winning must be claimed on or before 30th days
from date of draw. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with our
designated agents or us.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.
Please be warned !!!!!!!!

The Free Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,the
Intel Group, Toshiba,Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other
international IT companies. The free lotto internet draw is held thrice in a
year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers
worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Dollars are won
annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.We also encourage you to visit
various website online and take your chance to become part of our daily
winners. Millions are won on a daily basis on one of the world's most famous
free lotto service.Become part of our daily winners. Millions are won on a
daily basis on one of the world's most famous free lotto service.

Once again congratulations from the entire staff of the U.K NATIONAL
LOTTERY.

Brain Hunt.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program
NATIONAL LOTTERY .

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