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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:
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • notify2006@o2.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <tbc_bank@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:01:25 +0900
Subject: Congratulations You Won !!!

THE BRITISH INTERNATIONAL WEB LOTTERY GAMES
1 Plough Place,
London EC4A 1DE
ENGLAND.
Ref: UK-EG/8869G1/988
Batch: EG67/298/06

DATE: 22-08-2006


Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 3 lucky winners in the
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL WEB LOTTERY draw (#996) held 12pm 1st August 2006
in London, Your e-mail address attached to email ticket number:
97858355Z9, with serial number 9241/08, drew the lucky numbers
(05)-(50)-(211)-(17)-(11)-(41) bonus (#09) Which subsequently won you
the lottery in the 1ST category winner in this month's
draw. Consequently you have therefore been approved for a total pay out
of £800,000 Pounds ( Eight Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) only.

This is from a total cash prize of £2,400,000,00 shared amongst the
first three (3) lucky winners in this category. All 3 lucky winning
addresses were randomly selected from World Wide Web sites through
computer ballot system extracted from over 100,000 international
emails,unions,associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
online. This promotion takes place bimonthly. In view of this, your
£800,000 Pounds (
Eight Hundred Thousand Pounds sterling) would be released to you by our
affiliate security firm/diplomatic courier department here in UK. Our agent
will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your
funds as soon as you contact him/her.

Please contact our Claims Department Manager Mr Steve Howard underlisted to

file for your claim.This agency will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you
contact him

Contact :
Mr. Steve Howard
Claims Department Manager
EQUITY -SECURITY AND FINANCE LIMITED.
Email: notify2006@o2.co.uk

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information's
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of
our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program. Please be warned.

Goodluck from me and members of staff of THE BRITISH INTERNATIONAL WEB
LOTTERY GAMES AND EQUITY-SECURITY AND FINANCE COMPANY UK. At your disposal,
we
remain.


Yours faithfully,
Judy Mclean
FOR MANAGEMENT



THE BRITISH INTERNATIONAL WEB LOTTERY GAMES Awards is proudly sponsored
by financial Corp's the evergreen group and a conglomeration of other
international IT companies. THE BRITISH INTERNATIONAL WEB LOTTERY GAMES
internet draw is held monthly, and is organized to encourage the use of
the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200
Million Pounds are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam