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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.
  • +447011127557 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK National Lottery Claim Agent" <uknationalclaimagent1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:01:09 -0800
Subject: Congratulations/Processing.


Attn: Frimunt Frei,

I received your email and I quite understand your explanation that you did
not do much of written English. I will like to use this opportunity to
inform you that the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HAS AWARDED YOU WITH A HUGE SUM OF
AMOUNT.

Congratulations once again on this award prize from UK national Lottery.

This particular series of the National lottery was organized for both Non-
UK residence and its residence.
Participants were selected from different company and personal emails across
the continent. This is in conjunction with Bill Gate's Microsoft
company.Soplease note that no ticket were sold in this programme as
winners were
freely selected through the internet.

The National Lottery is been operated Camelot Group plc. You can see more
of this on www.camelotgroup.co.uk , and is committed to raising money for
the Good Causes designated by Parliament. Although Camelot is not
responsible fordistributing or awarding these funds.

To date, £19 billion has been raised for Good Causes by The National
Lottery, and more
than 240,000 individual awards have been made across the UK – the biggest
programme of civic and social regeneration since the 19th Century.

The National Lottery has given away over £27.9 billion in prizes and created
more than 1,900 millionaires or multi-millionaires since launch in 1994

Camelot runs one of the most cost-efficient lotteries in the world. At 41
per cent of total
sales (28 per cent to Good Causes, 12 per cent in lottery duty to the
Government and
almost 1 per cent in Corporation Tax, non-reclaimable VAT and other taxes),
Camelot
returns a higher proportion of lottery revenue back to society than any
other lottery
operator in the world. National Lottery retailers receive 5 per cent of
total revenue in
commission, and 50 per cent of sales is paid out to players in prizes

It is our official duty to notify you that you are required to make your
claims before the 12th day of November, 2006 as stipulated with the British
laws guiding stringent money movement policies from United Kingdom. Any
claim not made by this date will be returned to HER MAJESTY'S DEPARTMENT OF
THE TREASURY.

For us to process your winning, you are required to send the following
information.

Full Name:
Residential Address:
Country of Origin:
Age:
Sex:
Occupation:
Telephone Number:
Fax Number:
Copy of your identification (International Passport/ Drivers license/ Work
ID) .

This is required to enable us commence your winning processing in accordance
to the British laws.

It might interest you to know that the UK's first National Lottery was
actually way back in 1569, would you believe? But it eventually died out,
only to be resurrected as an annual event between c. 1750 and 1826. Ever
since then, it's not been possible to buy a National Lottery ticket here in
the UK until the launch of the current UK National Lottery on Monday 14th
November 1994. Why? Well, I blame the soccer pools companies for putting
pressure to preserve their status as the only way of winning more than a
million pounds in this country. It's total madness that we were denied a
National Lottery in the UK for 168 years because of this - even Albania has
got one! Today UK national lottery has resurrected with the biggest hit ever
made.

This makes the UK National Lottery unique amongst European national
lotteries because it is run by a private company rather than the state. Some
30,350 outlets have National Lottery terminals installed (6,500 more have
Instants terminals) and the plan is to have totals of 35,500 and 16,500
terminals respectively by the end of 2005.

The UK National Lottery and is committed to maximizing returns to the Good
Causes in a socially responsible way. Since 1994, we have raised £12.9
billion for Good Causes, funding over 139,000 projects across the UK.

Note that failure to abide by our rules and regulations will be termed as a
refusal to receive the won prize within the stipulated time frame. Your
immediate cooperation will be highly appreciated and congratulations once
more!

Yours Truly,

Frank Kluvet.
Batch Payment Officer
Sweepstakes International Program
Payment and Release Order Dept.
UK Lottery International
P.O. Box 101 Liverpool
L70 1NL, United Kingdom
+44-701-1127557

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