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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (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!

Fraud email example:

From: "lotto_winnersonline1" <lotto_winnersonline1@terra.com.mx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:56:41 -0600
Subject: Winning Notification!!!!!!!



British Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON. LONDON
Ref: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch: 12/25/0304
Dear Lucky Winner,

RE: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded draws of BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM.

The online Cyber Lotto Email draws which is being sponsored and hosted by Microsoft and Coca Cola Company was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 500,000 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of twelve winners in the first category with the following data

Ref Number: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch Number: 12/25/0304
Serial Number: 5388/02
Ticket Number: 564 75600545-188
Lucky Number: 31-6-26-13-35-7

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of USD$2,500,000 (TWO MILLION FIVE, HUNDRED THOUSAND, UNITED STATE DOLLARS) each from the total payout.
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. Note that your funds have been insured and no deductions of any kind can be made on your funds. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company for first category winners with the contact information below:

Mr. Micheal J Hollace
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release Order Dept.
Lottery Headquarters
Email: agent_lottery007@boxlotto.com
You are required to contact him with the following;

1, Full Name:.................................................
2, Contact Address:..........................................
3, Occupation:................................................
4, Age:........................................................
5, Nationality/Country:.......................................
6, Contact Phone Number:....................................

[PRIZE PAYMENT OPTIONS] *(YOU ARE REQUIRED TO CHOOSE ONLY ONE OF THE TWO OPTION BELOW)*

1, Diplomatic Dispatch Delivery System (DDDS)
2, Secured International Bank Transfer (SIBT)

NOTE: BENEFICIARY WILL BE FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHARGES ASSOSIATED WITH (DDDS) AND (SIBT).

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information and all the informations listed above in all correspondence with your claims agent.

You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).

Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Yours faithfully,
Mr Michael Ronin.
Zonal Coordinator.

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION



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