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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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• 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: BILC Promotions <bilcpromo@worldemail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:39:34 -0300
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

--------HTML GRAPHICS HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR SECURITY REASONS--------

 

British International Lottery Corporation (BILC)
103 Jupiter House
Calleva Park, Reading
RG7 8WN, UK

Ref No.:      BILC/421ONI/05
Batch No.:  BILC/23/136-A

 

 

WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

We happily announce to you the draw of the BILC programs held in the month of August 2006 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: BILC-033 6123 234 with Serial number: 005404 drew the lucky numbers: 31 06 26 13 35 07 11, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £850,000.00 (Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand, British pounds) in cash credited to file BILC/F/75543340/04. This is from a total cash prize of £128,000,000, shared amongst the lucky winners in this category.

 

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your £850,000.00 (Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand, British Pounds) would be released to you by The Payment Centre in London. Note also that this is a free lottery program which does not require purchase of a ticket or any form of registration. Your involvement in this programme is unconditional, hence you could reject your prize claim  

 

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through a computer draw system extracted from over 20,000 company and 30,000,000 individual email addresses. This promotion takes place annually.

 

This lottery is promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of multinational companies in Europe as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

 

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your prize money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned. To file for your claim, please contact our Head of Claims Department  with the below details for processing of your claims.

 

BILC Claims Department
Contact Person: Andrea Wallace

Email: securenotify@uk2.net

          a_wallace@flash.ro

                          

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in all correspondences with us or our designated agent.Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

 

Sincerely,
Mrs Tracy Cambell
Zonal Coordinator

 

 

 

 

 

 

NB.
1)  You have recieved this email because your email address was extracted and included in our Lottery database.if you are not interested in claiming your winning,  please send us a blank email with the subject "Disclaimer";
2)  Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winner(s) will result to disqualification.

3)  Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

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