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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.
• 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.
  • +27783834352 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • freelotto2001@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • hon_john005edward@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: freelotto2001@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 02:41:33 +0200
Subject: ANNUAL AWARD WINNER











THE FREELOTTO COMPANY
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30, LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON ENGLAND
E-mail: freelotto2001@hotmail.com

Customer Service: 680 NCA 85914
Ref: EAASL/851OYHI/04
Batch: 12/25/DC34
Zonal Draw No: GMLA2-003
Grand Draw No: 12099

CONGRATULATIONS WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the FreeLotto draw held 6th of May 2006. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as category 2 winners in this year's Annual FreeLotto Draw

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9564 75604545 100 with! Serial number 46560 drew the winning: 37-13-43-85-67-11, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a total pay out of £1,000,000.00 pounds (one million pounds) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This is from a total cash prize of UK £10,000,000,00 Million pounds, shared amongst the first 10 luckywinners in this category world-wide.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Afro booklet representative office in Africa as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this,your £1,000,000.00 pounds (one million pounds)would be released to you.

Our African agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000,00 companies and personal emails. This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you.


This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned. To file for your claim, please contact our corresponding agent in South Africa immediately you read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund, contact information is as follow: - HON JOHN EDWARD(ESQ) E-mail:{hon_john005edward@yahoo.com }TEL -+27-78-3834352).

Please be informed that all winning must be claimed on or before 14th Aug 2006. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with our designated agents.

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.


YOUR'S Sincerely.
Mrs. GLADYS OWEN.
United Kingdom Zonal Co-coordinator.


Mr.GREY JOHNSON,
United Kingdom zonal Secretary General.
Thank you for your Co-operation.


LAST WINNERS ON UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE GAME.


Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY AND E-SECURITY AND FINANCE COMPANY UK.At your disposal, we remain. CONGRATULATIONS!!!


Regards,
BRIAN SOUTHGATE
Online coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.
International Program.
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