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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.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "20 craven park, harlesden"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • mrbillgarry@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MICROSOFTAWARD TEAM <billgarrys8888@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:21:54 +0100
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION (claim yoour price now)

 

Microsoft Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden
London NW10
United Kingdom
Ref: BTD/968/05
Batch: 409978E

Dear Lucky winner,

WINNING NOTIFICATION
The prestigious Micrsoft and aol has set out and sucessfully organised
a Sweepstakes marking the end of year anniversary we rolled out over
5,000.000.00 (five million Great Britain Pounds) for our end of year
Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected
and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their
patronage.

The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching
personalised email addresses to ticket numbers. Bill Gates is sharing
his fortune. If you ignore this, you will regret it later. Microsoft and
AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure
that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and
AOL are running an e-mail beta test.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket
number 008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the
lucky numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you 500,000.00
(five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) as one of the 10 jackpot
winners in this draw. You have therefore won the entire winning sum of
500,000.00 (five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds). The draws
registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United
Kingdom on the 11th of September 2006. These Draws are commemorative and as
such
special.

Please be informed by this winning notification,to file your claims,you
are to make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide
you through the process to facilitate the release of your prize.To file
for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent

Mr Garry Bill
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Email: mrbillgarry@hotmail.co.uk

You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following
details to avoid unnecessary delays and complications:

Prefix (Mr., Mrs., Ms., Dr., etc.):

First name:.................................

Middle name:................................

Last name:..................................

Date of birth (yyyy-mm-dd):.................
Gender:.....................................

Marital status:............................

Spouse/significant other:..................

Lotto Batch Number:.......................

Lotto Reference Numbers:...................

Preferences: ................................

Home address :.............................

City:......................................

State/province:............................

Zip/postal code:...........................

Country: .....................................

Phone:......................................

Fax:......................................

Mobile/cellular:...........................

E-mail:....................................

Job title:.................................

Occupation:................................

Company name:..............................

Work address:..............................

Thank you for being part of this promotional award program. Our special
thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.We wish you the
best of luck as you spend your good fortune.Thank you for being part of
our commemorative end of year Anniversary Draws.

Sincerely,

Dr. Mike Anderson
Microsoft Promotion Team:

NB:
PLEASE NOTE! Any claim not made before ten (10) working days from date
of notification indicate that the winner has voluntarily forfeited
his/her winnings.

Indicate that the winner has voluntarily forfeited
his/her winnings.

 

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