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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:
  • "million british pounds" (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.
  • mfox_headofclaimsdept@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mark Kevin <m.kevinbox@web.de>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:58:59 +0200
Subject: Congratulations !!!


Dear Prize Winner,

It is our pleasure to inform you that you have emerged as a Category "A" winner of the Inter Prem Lotto United Kingdom.
You are entitled to a prize sum of Four Million Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds, Reference number for your prize is PILS/SA/UK/69-810278, ticket number A/04-3919. As a category A winner, you have been selected from a total number of Twenty Five Thousand names drawn from Asia, Africa, Europe, Middle East and America.

This lottery organisation has been mandated and approved by the gaming board in the united kingdon to assist in funding the London 2012 Olympics(Games of the XXX Olympiad). After the computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, only six winners emerged in the category and therefore both are to receive payouts of Four Million Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds from the total Twenty seven Million British Pounds for second category winners. We in the Inter Prem Lotto United Kingdom, It is by this program, launching our model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of the ever growing number of participants in our various lottery programs. With funds accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to all winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in record time.

To immediately collect your prize, Please contact Head of Claims Department for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice: Mr. Michael Fox
Head of Claims Department.
Inter-Prem Lotto Uk.
Inter Prem Lottery Headquarters,
Great Surry House
203 Black Frairs Road,
London SE 1 8NH.
E-mail: mfox_headofclaimsdept@yahoo.co.uk [mailto:mfox_headofclaimsdept@yahoo.co.uk]

Provide prize reference number-PILS/SA/UK/69-810278 and winning ticket number- A/04-3919 for confirmation. In your best interests, you must initiate contact within one week of receipt of this correspondence. You are also advised to send a copy of this Email, by email attachment, to the head of claims department Mr. Michael Fox when contacting him. You are to keep all lottery information from the public as we will not entertain cases of multiple claims processing or compromise the privacy and security for all winners. Other necessary Inter Prem Lotto United Kingdom information are:
Draw 1 number: 001-22528
Draw 2 number: 002-8073
International Lottery code no:IL66118 You may be required to provide any of the above information during the process of collecting your prize. You are advised once again 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. We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest future. Thank you Sincerely, THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTER PREM LOTTERY UK.
Inter Prem Lottery Headquarters,
Great Surry House
203 Black Frairs Road,
London SE 1 8NH.
www.inter-prem-lotto.co.uk [http://int-prem.cloud.prohosting.com/]

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 Category Claims Officer immediately.



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