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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims director" (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 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.
  • +447031948432 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448717151559 (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.
  • claimsdirector02@web2mail.com
  • claimsdirector_claimsdepartment@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: <christy_ivan@p-owmf.org>
Reply-To: chrsty_vn@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:20:04 -0600
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS:Ticket Number:99/bnk/533


FROM: PROMOTION DEPARTMENT
LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL,
LUKI BUILDING,
80 King William Street,
London EC4R 9AN,
United Kingdom.

Attention: Sir/ Madam,

We happily announce to you the draw of the LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL,Online Program held on 25-sept-2006.

Your email address attached to reference Number: 208, ZX, 11,663/UK with Ticket Number:99/bnk/533. Which subsequently won you one of the Jackpot cash prizes.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £2,500,000.00(Two Million Five Hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds) in cash credited to file L/UK/010/71/2/33 All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over 50,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

A random number generator using a proprietary random number generation algorithm will select exactly 6 reference numbers from the range 1-24 with ticket winning number from the range 1-24 To file for your claim,

please contact our claims director via contact information below:

MR. BILLY BRADFIELD,
CLAIMS DIRECTOR,
CLAIMS DEPARTMENT,
LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL,
LUKI BUILDING,
80 King William Street,
London EC4R 9AN,
United Kingdom.
Tel:+44 703 194 8432
Tel:+44 702 406 7317
Fax:+44 87 1715 1559
Email:claimsdirector02@web2mail.com
Cc : claimsdirector_claimsdepartment@yahoo.co.uk

Congratulation once again from me, and entire members of staff of the LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest future.

Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
CHRISTY IVAN,
PROMOTION DEPARTMENT,
LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL

PLEASE NOTE:
YOU ARE TO KEEP ALL LOTTERY INFORMATIONS FROM PUBLIC AS WE WILL NOT ENTERTAIN CASES OF MULTIPLE CLAIMS PROCESSING OR COMPROMISE THE PRIVACY AND SECURITY OF ALL OUR WINNER.THIS IS IN LINE WITH THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF THE LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL

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