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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 director" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447031843099 (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.
  • extolincorporated44@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LIVERWOOD CORDINATOR" <liverwoodlottocompany1@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 02:09:23 -0700
Subject: WINNERS NOTICE( CONGRATULATIONS)


*NATIONAL LIVERWOOD LOTTERY INC.
18 Herbert Road,
Sol hall,
West Midlands,B91 3QE*
*United Kingdom*

*NATIONAL LIVERWOOD LOTTERY WINNERS NOTICE*

Dear Prize winner,

Congratulations Category A prize winner! You have been selected as one of
two winners of the NATIONAL LIVERWOOD LOTTERY,computer ballot draws and thus
will be a privileged recipient of the grand draw prize of £1,500,000 (One
million five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds only). You/Your company,
attached to Winning File Reference number
LIUK/5020/0261/20; ticket number 219-8IO-97/A.

NATIONAL LIVERWOOD LOTTERY conducted its final draws, participants were
selected through a Computer ballot system drawn from 4,100,000 names/email
addresses of individuals and Companies from Europe, America, Asia,Australia,
Middle East,Africa, and Oceanic as part of our international promotions
program. You emerged as one of the grand draw prize in the Category A and
are there for entitled to a sum of £1,500,000 (One million five hundred
thousand Great Britain Pounds only). From a total sum of £3,000,000 shared
among the 2 winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Please contact our agent by email or fax within a week of receiving
this notice for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice, Please find full contact details
below;

Mr. KELVIN WHITE
CLAIMS DIRECTOR
EXTOL FINANCE INC. U.K.
TEL: +447031843099
Email: extolincorporated44@yahoo.co.uk

Also find all other relevant winning lottery information below:

Draw Serial No: 12/619466
Batch No: 01-A442
Zonal Draw No: A1-412
Grand Draw No: 24618

To avoid uneccesarry delay please do furnish the Claims director with
the following details:-
1) FULL NAME-----------------------------------------------
(2) FULL ADDRESS------------------------------------------
(3) NATIONALITY.--------------------------------------------
(4) AGE-------------------------------------------------------
(5) OCCUPATION-----------------------------------------------
(6 )WINNING EMAIL---------------------------------------------
(7 )TELEPHONE NUMBER------------------------------------------
(8) DATE OF WINNING AWARD-------------------------------------
(9) SEX-------------------------------------------------------------
(10) TOTAL AMOUNT WON-------------------------------------------
(11) MARITAL STATUS-------------------------------------------------

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
NATIONAL LIVERWOOD LOTTERY INC.
18 Herbert Road,
Sol hall,
West Midlands,B91 3QE
United Kingdom.

N.B: You are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery information and
numbers from the public in line with our company security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous
individuals.

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