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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.
  • +447769698430

Fraud email example:

From: london olympic games promotions <londonpromotions@lycos.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:42:59 +0100
Subject: Congratulations!!



NET.23516054/05
Batch: 37/0051/JBL
Winning No: Quote 3/4


Dear Winner
We are delighted to inform you of your prize released on the 20th of October
of 2006 from the London 2012 Lottery programme.
Your name "email address" was attached to ticket number: B/2,6,7,3,1,8,4,5,
serial number: 9,7,5,2,7,1. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 6,
5, 1, 4,6,2 bonus number 1, which consequently won the lottery in the second
category.
You hereby have been approved lump sum pay of GBP 820,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED =
AND TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS) in cash credited to file ref: ILP/HW 00075428 =
>From the total cash prize of GBP 14, 000,000.00 shared amongst sixteen lucky
winners, based on their category.
All participants "email address" were selected through a computer balloting
system drawn form Nine of hundred thousand names from Canada, Australia,
United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our
international promotions program, which is conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some multinational companies as
part of the fund raising towards the successful hosting of the 2012 Olympic
games also, as their social responsibility to the citizens in the
communities where they have operational base. We hope with part of your
prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for GBP 300
Million Pounds international draw.
Please do contact:

Dr.Franklin Brown (londonpromotions@ lycos.com

LCI LOTTERY ORGANISATION.
Phone: + 44-776-969-8430
Fax: + 44-870-765-6679
LCI ORGANISATION
PARADISE WALK
LONDON
SW3 4JL
Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on
the top left corner of this notification as well as your full names and
address to help of 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 dual claiming and unwarranted
taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Note, all winnings MUST be claimed a specified date;
Otherwise YOUR PRIZE will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity.

please reply and send us your informations your contact number incase we may need to contact you as to start prossing your your claim for time is runing out

Congratulations once again on your winnings!


Best Regards
Mrs.Susan Davies (co-ordinator).

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