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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.
  • claimagent_cole001@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: alex cole <uklottteryzone@fsmail.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:13:49 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS WINNER


The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITEDKINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/04
Batch: R3/A312-59

Dear Winner,
We happily announce to you the draw (#984) of the UKNATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International Program held on 5th of SEPTEMBER 2006.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the luckynumbers:10.16.21.24.34.46. [30]
Bonus Ball which subsequently won the Jackpot prize. You have therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of £850,000(Eight hundred and fifty thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the
World Wide Web through a computer draws system and extracted from over
100,000 unions, associations , and corporate bodies that are listed
online. This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon.
In view of this, your£8,500,00 would be released to you by any of our
payment offices in Europe.
To file for your claim, please contact
Name : Mr Alex Cole
Email: claimagent_cole001@yahoo.com
NOTE that you are to contact him as soon as possible to enable a hitch
free processing of your winnings to you.
he will direct you on how to claim your winnings
That way your Winnings and all other relevant documents/paperwork can be
Prepared for you. You would be required to
Show an instrument of identification to claim your winnings
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 deemfit to claim your prize. This is part
of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program. Please be warned.
Good luck from me and members of staff of the U.K NATIONALLOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Susan Moore (Mrs)
Online coordinator forTHE NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program .A
The National Lottery Logo

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