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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.
  • +447031905045 (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.
  • simon_davies001@yahoo.co.uk
  • alicepoloman@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "National Lottery Promo" <a.poloman8@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: alicepoloman@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:27:55 +0000
Subject: PRIZE WINNING NOTICE.

PRIZE WINNING NOTICE.
NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMO
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITES 23-30, LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND.

RE: OFFICIAL LETTER - PRIZE WINNING NOTICE.

Ref: NAS/941OYI/04
Batch:04/06/MA34

We happily announce to you the draw of the National Lottery Promo
International program, held on 24th day of March,2006. in Dublin Ireland.
Your email address was attached to ticket number:77770064638 with serial
number:67345/04 drew the lucky numbers 12-8-9-11-12-5, which subsequently
won you the lottery in the second category. You have therefore been approved
to claim a total sum of $1,150,000.00 USD,(One million One hundred and fifty
thousand Dollars only) in cash credited to file pl/233376899/04. This is
from a total cash prize of 60 Million Dollars,shared among the first thirty
(30) lucky winners in this category. In view of this,your money would be
released to you by our payment center in Europe.

Our European agent (Reality Agency) will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as they are contacted. All
participants were selected randomly from World wide Website through computer
ballot system extracted from over 100,000 companies and individuals. This
promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to
keep your winning information confidential till your claims 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 claimming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.

Please bewarned.To file your claims, please contact our agent:

CLAIMS DEPARTMENT:
===============
NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMO
Agent: The Reality Agency
Name: MR. SIMON DAVIES
TEL: +44-703-190-5045
E-MAIL: simon_davies001@yahoo.co.uk

To avoid unnecessary delay and complications, Please quote your ref/batch
numbers in any correspondences to our Reality agent.

DENIAL OF APPLICATION:
==================
Please be informed that the following listed Country have been banned from
participating in the lottery. Iraq, South Africa, and Nigeria, if you are a
resident of the listed country you cannot file claims for this lottery
prize. Please delete this Notification as your prize processing will be
annulled without notice.

Congratulations.

Sincerely,

Alice Poloman,
Public Relations Officer
National Lottery Promo
E-MAIL: alicepoloman@yahoo.co.uk

N.B:
(1).....All claims are nullified after 10 working days from today.
(2).....Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the claims officer.
(3).....Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addresses.
(4).....All winners under the age of 18 are automatically dis-qualified.
(5).....A mandatory ($1,150 U.S.D) is charged to process all claims.

==========================================================================================================================
© 2006 The National lottery promo Awards is proudly sponsored by the
Microsoft Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers,Mckintosh and
a conglomeration of other international IT companies.The National lottery
internet draw is held quarterly every year and is soorganized to encourage
the use of the internet and computers worldwide.We are proud to say that
over 200 Million Dollars are won annually in more than 150 countries
worldwide.We also encourage you to visit our website at www.lotto.ie and
take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners. Millions are
won on a daily basis on one of the world's most famous The National lottery
Promo.

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