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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.
  • +447031912047 (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.
  • ukclaimsagent_michael@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS <ukclaimsagent_michael@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:05:04 +0100
Subject: BE NOTIFIED.....................YOU HAVE WON!!!



BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
28 TAN FIELD ROAD,
CROYDON, LONDON.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
+44 703 191 2047
+44 703 195 5133
+44 702 407 9425
(24hours)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today 8TH of September,
2006 of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME held on
Saturday the 26TH of August, 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky
numbers:01-14-21-3-35-48, and a bonus number of 24 which subsequently won you the
lottery in the second category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total
sum of £253,437.00 in cash credited to KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total
cash prize of £2,534,370.00 shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in
this category.

This year's Lottery Program Jackpot is the 5th largest ever in the history of
Europe Sweepstakes. All participants for the online version were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted
from over 125,000 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 playcoupon. In view of this, your £253,437.00 would be released
to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.Our European agent will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon
as you contact him. 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 claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.To file for your claim,
please contact our fiduciary
AGENT:Glen Michael
Email: ukclaimsagent_michael@yahoo.co.uk

(Form HLP)
REFERENCE NUMBER: UK/9420X2/68
FULL NAME...............................................
COMPANY NAME: ...........................................
FULL ADDRESS:...........................................
SEX:.................................
AGE...................................
OCCUPATION.............................
ANNUAL INCOME...................
TEL.......................FAX................. (If any)
COUNTRY................................
E-MAIL..................................
HAVE YOU A PASSPORT OR LICENCE.............(identification on delivery)
WINNING NUMBER........................
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/
INDIVIDUAL:..................................................................


Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank you
for being part of our online promotional lottery program.
Yours Truly,
Sir. Steven Smith.
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme).







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