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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.
  • +447031910741 (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.
  • contactwalteradams@inmail24.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "infodept_onlinepro70" <infodept_onlinepro70@terra.com.mx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:00:40 -0600
Subject: YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS WON THE LOTTERY PROMO AWARD 2006


NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
79 BOVILL ROAD
LONDON. SE23 1EL.
*************************
REF Nº: EGS/2251256003/02
BATCH Nº: 14/0017/1PD
*************************
Attn:Winner

WINNING NOTIFICATION
The board of directors and entire member of staff of the National Lottery wishes to inform you of the result
of the (Email Address Ballot) online Sweepstakes international program held at the British Headquarter.
Your email account have been picked as a winner of Six Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling (£600,000.00) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total sum of Four Million, Two hundred Thousand Pounds
Sterling (£4,200,000.00) shared amongst seven winners. This results is now released to you on wednesday 19th July, 2006
and your email address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky
numbers -04-21-25-37-45-46 and bonus ball-06-in the Lotto, to check your results online click on this link
http://lottery.co.uk/res/ participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft
users from company and individual email address users.
Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims have 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. For the release of your winning, kindly contact your claims supervisory officer at the British Lottery
Head Quarters, Payment Release Order Department.

**************************************************
Contact Person:Walter Adams.
PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
BRITISH/UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
E-mail:contactwalteradams@inMail24.com
Phone: +44-703-191-0741, +44-702-305-0680
**************************************************

You will be required to quote your lucky number,for confirmation on your winnings.All winning must be claimed
not later than 3weeks after reciept of this mail. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to
European Union Treasury as unclaimed prize for good cause.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 to the fiduciary via email,fax or telephone.

1.Full name and address.
2.Country.
3.Tel and fax number.
4.Occupation.
5.Languages Spoken
6.Religion.
7.Age.
Congratulations from the entire member of staff and thank you for being part of our email account users
program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Julie Van Hans,
Executive (International Sweepstakes).
Note: Participants below 21 years are automatically disqualified. All e-mail transmission/ correspondence are
100% protected by our Secured Socket Layer (SSL) server. The NLS is an institution under public law. Therefore,
the lottery contract is concluded between the lottery participant and the public law institution NATIONAL
LOTTERY ONLINE PROGRAM which is represented through its Director Dr. Gerhard Rombach at 79 Bovill Road, London.
SE23 1EL. United Kingdom, trades register HRA 6230.
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).Affiliates The Lottery Company and lottery.co.uk is in no way affiliated with,associated with or approved or endorsed by Camelot Group plc or The National Lottery Commission.

Material Copyright © 2006 The Lottery Co. Ltd.

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