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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.
  • +447024064888 (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.
  • kelly_clearing@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • clearing_agentuk@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UKLOTTERY GAME06 <uklotterygame_06@inbox.ru>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:23:43 +0400
Subject: <CONGRATULATIONS WINNER!!!>





FROM:INTERNATIONAL CHARITY/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT OF
THUNDER-BALL UK Congratulations as you are among the lucky winners
that were selected by an advanced automated random computer search over the internet as no tickets were sold for this program, and thus have been registered for further consideration in the THUNDER-BALL UK NTERNATIONAL CHARITY
program for the year 2006/2007 notification.
Lucky winners were selected at random via a computer
ballot system drawn from 5,000,000 email addresses of individuals
and corporate bodies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle
East, and Oceania.

Your email address drew ticket number 854-2030, serial
number 04-25 and lucky numbers 25-18-04-AA in the A252 Category. You
have therefore been awarded a prize sum pay out of 1,000,000 (one
million Great Britain Pounds).However there are only 3 prize payout in the A
category, therefore it is of utmost importance, that you carefully follow these instructions in claiming your prize money in order to avoid mix up of winning
information of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of
your award strictly from public notice until the process of
transfer of your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to
your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid cases
of double claiming o=r unscrupulous acts by participants/non participants of
this program.This notification does not guarantee immediate
collection of prize money, as all necessary paper work must be carried out. Your funds is now= deposited with our payout agents FINANCE COMPANY LTD and insured to the full value of 1,000,000 (one million Great Britain Pounds).
For confirmation of your selection as a winner, you are TO FORWARD a
copy of this notification email to our director of operations with
details below:
kelly Davies,
Directors of Operations,
THUNDERBALL UK LTD,
Thunder-Ball House,
221 Albemarle Street,
London W1S 4BS,
United Kingdom.
Phone Number:+447024064888
email:kelly_clearing@yahoo.co.uk,
clearing_agentuk@yahoo.co.uk,
Congratulations once again from all staff of
THUNDERBALL UK LTD and it
is our hope that you participate in any of our
international programs
in the nearest future.
Sincerely,
Janet Brown,
Customer Service Manager,
Prize Award Department,
THUNDERBALL UK LTD
Thunder-Ball House,
221 Albemarle Street,
London W1S 4BS,
United Kingdom. NOTE: BE REMINDED TO KEEP THE ENTIRE DETAILS OF YOUR
AWARD
STRICTLY FROM PUBLIC NOTICE UNTIL THE PROCESS OF
TRANSFER
OF YOUR CLAIMS HAS BEEN COMPLETED, AND YOUR FUNDS
REMITTED TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
NOTE: YOUR FULL NAME: ADDRESS: PHON NUMBER: OCCUPATION:

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