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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:

• 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.
  • +448701359402 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447769698430

Fraud email example:

From: london promotions <londonpromotions@yuber.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:54:47 +0100
Subject: Congratulations!!


From: The Vice President
London Lottery Promotions/Prize Award Dept.
Ref: LLP/PAD/231

AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the recent result of LONDON
LOTTERY/PROMOTIONS PROGRAM held on 20 october 2006.

Your E-mail Address attached to ticket number 099-44871555 with serial
numbers 6774-04 drew the lucky numbers 6-7-18-33-35-42 which
consequently
won the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved
for
the lump sum payout of £720,000.00 (SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSNAD
POUNDS
credited to file number LLP/400106/04.

This is from the total cash prize of £20,450,000.00(TWENTY MILLION,FOUR
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS) Shared among the fourteen
international
winners in different categories.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from
550,000 E-mail Addresses from Asia, MiddleEast, Europe, North America,
South
America and Africa as part of our international promotion programs
which we
conduct in the month of october every year to promote business on the
internet .We hope that your Email address will draw a bigger cash prize
in
the future subsequent programs.

To begin your lottery claim please contact :

Dr.Franklin Brown
Customer Service Manager

Tel: +44 776 969 8430
Fax: +44 870 135 9402

for necessary assistance as regards to your claim and final release of
the
prize money to your designated bank account.

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 20 Nov
2006.
After this date, all unclaimed funds will be returned to the INLAND
REVENUE.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every
correspondence
with us.

Congratulations on behalf of our management.


Mrs. Emma Hunts
MANAGER
londonpromotions@yuber.com


LONDON LOTTERY PROMOTIONS 2005. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. CODEX-SADDE LONDON
SG

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