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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.
  • +448712562955 (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.
  • coordinatorlim@she.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Thomas Wignal" <promotionlist@she.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: coordinatorlim@she.com
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:13:05 +0700
Subject: ASIA/UK AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

Date: 15th Octorber 2006,

REF N0: ZFN/22512567303/06
BATCH NO: 86056490902/204
WINNING NO:ASUK/33/36/45/12/06/LW

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
OF THE UK LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION

ATTENTION

The Asia U.K National Lottery/International wishes to inform you of the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by the United Kingdom lotto International promotions. Your email account has been picked as a winner of Nine Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($900,000:00) We happily announce to you the draw (#1046) of the Asia UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on the 1st July, 2006 in NEWCASTLE UNITED-KINGDOM. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers :( 06, 09, 11, 33, 36,49 and bonus ball 29) which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus.

To file for your claim, please contact our co-ordinator below with the following information.

Mr Albert Lim
Fax: +44-87-1256-2955
Email: coordinatorlim@she.com

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email
account users for the promotion.

For your information, return a copy of this letter during your reply.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr Thomas Wignal,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

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