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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 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.
  • agentmarksmith_uklotto@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "NATIOANAL LOTTERY" <ukgames_45@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: agentmarksmith_uklotto@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:01:54 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION.............YOU HAVE WON........... 250,000GBP

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT. REF Nº: EGS/2251256003/02 BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD               AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE National Lottery wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery  international program by Great Britain held on 18th August,2006. Your email account have been  picked as a winner of  SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY. This result is now released on 18th August 2006 and your email address attached  in the  Category (A). All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from  Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses and your lucky number are as followsusers which is also known as to view and confirm this result from our website for your winning click on this link http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has 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  agent in National Lottery Head Quarters Mr. Bucklay George,on  You are to quote  your lucky numbers for confirmation on your winning. All winning must be claimed not later than 21 october 2006.After this date all unclaimed funds  will be returned to U K Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid  unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number  in all  correspondences. 1. Full name and address. 2. Country of origin. 3. Tel and fax number. 4. Occupation. 5. Your age. 6.Amount won. 7. Scanned copy of your international passport Congratulations, from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program. Please send all your replies to agentmarksmith_uklotto@yahoo.co.uk for urgent attention. Yours Sincerely, Mrs. Julie Van Hans, Executive.(U K Lottery Intern.) 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). Copyright © 2002 U K Union Lottery International MRS JULIE VAN HANS, VICE PRESIDENT.

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