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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:
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "transfer of your funds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447011130637 (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.
  • celena_g2003@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "BARCLAYS BANK PLC"<info-barclaysbankplc@myway.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 08:49:38 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Morgan David (Dr.) MAKE A CHOICE IMMEDIATELY





BARCLAYS BANK PLC®1 CHURCHILL PLACE, LONDON E14 5HP, UK.LONDON UNITED KINGDOM. 2nd November, 2006.APPLICATION FOR THE RELEASE/TRANSFER OF PRIZE FROM ACCOUNT NO.: BCBP0033248044 WHICH WAS DEPOSITED BY UK MULTINATIONAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
Attention: Mrs. Celena Gayle Gibeau, Thank you very much for contacting Barclays Bank UK. We are in receipt of your email of 1st December, 2006 concerning your lottery winnings and we are indeed happy with you and must say CONGRATULATIONS. Please permit me to make a correction once again concerning your winning prize, I believe you are aware that we are a corporate financial institution that cannot get involve in any form of illegality as our reputation speaks over the world. Barclays Bank is the flagship subsidiary of financial services group Barclays PLC. The bank is primarily active in the UK, where it serves approximately 14 million consumers and nearly 600,000 small businesses, but also has significant operations in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and several African nations, as well as the Middle East and Asia. It offers standard retail services such as current accounts, savings and investments, mortgages and other loans, insurance, credit cards, and Online Banking.
Barclays Bank traces its roots to the late 17th century. Futhermore, we are pleased to officially validate the winning notification we received from you, therefore, after due verification of your personal data and other relevant information needed to ascertain the authentication of your claims, we are glad to let you know that you are the real and authentic winner of the 2nd category of sweepstake held on the resently by U.K Multinational Lottery International, the Affiliate of Europe National Lottery, in which your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number: 834509819, with Prize Number: 237359446 drew a prize of £250,000.00 (TWO HUNDREN AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS) At the moment your prize £250,000.00 is domiciled in an Escrow Account (EA) of BARCLAYS BANK, which is a Domiciliary account. See below of the options available for you to claim your PRIZE. OPTIONS: CLAIM OF PRIZE: However, you are aware that the Escrow account is a DORMANT account and your funds was deposited in
that account, this new law was initiated by the U.K Goverment for every Banks and other Corporate financial body to comply with for any amount that exceeds more than £100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Pounds) should be deposited in the Escrow account for proper monitoring to avoid any form of money laundry. Below is the claim options for you to make a choice.1)You can give us the mandate to transfer your funds out of the escrow account, on your behalf where we shall set up a Barclays Online Transit Assist (BOTA) for you, for onward remittance to your local bank account in your country. And more so, because of the huge sum involve (£250,000.00) the account which is in a dormant account whereby you will be required to first open a new BOTA account with your name in our bank, with the help of our International Money Transfer (IMT) will handle that for you so that we can transfer your prize before making a final release/transfer of your prize/funds to your nominated bank account
in your country or thereabout. 2) If you may decides to travel down to meet with our security agent for clearance of your prize and finalize it as we believe that may cost a lot of money for the period of your staying in the U.K as we are not liable to take care of any expenses you may likely incur during your stay in U.K. With our assistance, your prize will be released to you in your country within 72hours (3 working days), after you have cleared the PRIZE/FUNDS from the British Government. Please make a choice of how you wish to claim your prize so that the details of how to go about it can be released to you. You have less than 5-days to complete the transfer of your funds from U.K to your norminated destination, either by Bank's transfer or by the Diplomatic process which requires you traveling down to UK for claim of your prize. My secretary tried to get you on phone but was never successful, you are advice to call should you need more clarifications concerning your
winnings. We look forward to an enduring banking relationship with you. Yours in Service, Morgan David (Dr.)(HEAD OF OPERATIONS)BARCLAYS BANK PLC®Tel: (+44) 701-113-0637 ************************* CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ****************************This e-mail contains LEGALLY PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATIONintended only for the use of the recipient named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the transmitting department of the bank by telephone or e-mail and delete the original e-mail received in error. THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN DISCLOSED TO YOU FROM RECORDS WHOSECONFIDENTIALITY IS PROTECTED BY STATE AND FEDERAL LAW. ANY FURTHER DISCLOSURE, COPYING, DISTRIBUTION OR ACTION TAKEN IN RELIANCE ON THE CONTENTS OF THESE DOCUMENTS WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE PERSON TO WHOM IT PERTAINS IS PROHIBITED.
YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DESTROY THE INFORMATION AFTER THE STATED NEED HAS BEEN FULFILLED. COPYRIGHT © 2006 ALL RIGHT RESERVED--- On Fri 12/01, Cc &lt; celena_g2003@yahoo.com &gt; wrote:From: Cc [mailto: celena_g2003@yahoo.com]To: info-barclaysbankplc@myway.comDate: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:23:16 -0800 (PST)Subject:
NAME: CELENA GAYLE GIBEAUADRESS: 214 E.CHOLLA ST. CASA GRANDE ARIZONA 85222 UNITED STATESTELEPHONE #: 1 (520) 280-8002 OR 1(520)426-1735AGE:34OCCUPATION: STAY AT HOME MOM WITH FIVE CHILDRENBANK NAME: WASHINGTON MUTALDRIVERS LICENC: 526696476AMOUNT WON: 250,000.00 POUNDSETICKET#:834509819PRIZE#:237359446EMAIL: celena_g2003@yahoo.comTHANK YOU
Celena G.

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