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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "British Gaming Board Online Lottery" <britishgamingboard@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:35:33 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!! YOU HAVE WON


*[image: The National Lottery Logo]
*
*THE NATIONAL LOTTERY*
*72 NEW BOND STREET,*
*NORTHENSHIRE SQUARE,*
*LONDON, WIS1RR, *
*UNITED KINGDOM.*
*P. O. BOX: 1011*
*LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.*


*FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE
AWARD DEPARTMENT.*

*REF Nº: EGS/2251256003/02*
*BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD *
*


RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE
*
*National U.K Lottrey *wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail
address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on *26th
of June 2006*, Your email account have
been picked as a winner of *TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY.*

This results is now released to you on *Sat 24th June, 2006* and your email
address attached
in the A Category lucky ball [image: Ball 9], [image: Ball 14], [image: Ball
21], [image: Ball 23] ,[image: Ball 39] ,[image: Ball 44],and bonus
ball [image:
Bonus Ball 19] , to check your results online click on this link
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do
<http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do>participants
were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users
from company and individual email addresses users.

Be advise to keep your winning information confidential until your claims
has 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.

All winning must be claimed not later than *24th July, 2006*. After this
date all unclaimed funds will be retured to European Union Treasury as
unclaimed. 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:

*1. Full name and address.*

*2. Country.*

*3. Tel and fax number.*
**
*4.Occupation.*

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account
users program.

Yours Sincerely,
*Mrs. Julie Van Hans,
Executive.(Euro Lottery Intern.)

*
Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn
Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams
(Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive),
Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).
* *

**
*MRS JULIE VAN HANS,*
*(VICE PRESIDENT)*
*[image: The National Lottery
Logo]*<http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/home/home.do>

* *
* *
*Copyright (c) 2006 British Lottery
International*

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