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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • +447011131015 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: europeonline@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:46:28 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lottery=20Notification=21=21=21?=

Ref: 4758961725
Batch: ALLINC 70564943902/188
Winning no: FGNGB2701/LPRC

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the
15th of september - 2006 from the Europe International Lottery
programme.
Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their
e-mail addresses
Your name was attached to ticke number;
47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002
This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 06-19-16-26-49-07-09 bonus
number 8,which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You
hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$700,000.00 (DOLLARS)
in cash credit file ref: 4758961725 from the total cash prize of
US$8,000,000.00 shared amongst fourty lucky winners in this category.
All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn
from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia,
UnitedStates, Asia, Europe, Middle East,united kingdom and Oceania as
part of our international promotions program which is conducted
annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our UK
representative office in london uk as indicated in your play
coupon and your prize of US$700,000.00USD, will be released to you from

this regional branch office in London. We hope with part of your prize,

you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion
international draw. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
Simply contact our Claims Department to file for your claim . Please quote
your reference, batch and winning
number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification
aswell as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your
file
easily.
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by
non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the 22th of october - 2006
otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually
donated to charity

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Best Regards

Sir Kennedy White

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION.

General Enquiries

Street Address:N0 1345 PST ENFIELD
lONDON,UK

Tel:+44701-113-1015
(Monday to Friday)

CONTACT CLAIMS DEPARTMENT

Email: claimsdepartment@europelottery.net

www. Europelottery.net

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