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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 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.
  • winning_claimdept@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Phillip Wood" <phillipwood20@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: winning_claimdept@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:30:11 -0700
Subject: MID YEAR WINNING APPROVAL!!!

GOODNEWS FOR YOU.
You have won 900,000,00 GBP
 Reply to:
winning_claimdept@yahoo.co.uk
(British LOTTERY)
British Lottery Headquarters:                                     
Customer Service
Programs and Events Department
The  United Kingdom - Frontline Group
The National Lottery,
P.O. Box 251,
Watford
WD1 8GD
                        NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING!!
 
Dear Lucky Winner,
 
       
     BRITISH LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
!!!No tickets were sold!!!!
 
We are officially informing you of the result of the Frontline Lottery
Winners International programs held on the 6th of January, 2007. as
part
of our Mid- Year  promotional programs for the year 2007. Your e-mail
address
attached to ticket number 77007742781005-18721 with reference number
EGS/2251256003/02 drew winning numbers 7-00-71-00-66-49 and credited to
batch number 121FTG,
which consequently won in the 3rd category via our electronic ticket as
stated above. You have
therefore been approved for a pay out of  900,000 GBP (NINE HUNDRED
THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY).
 
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We also advise that you keep your winning information very confidential
as our security policy demands to avoid double claims/impersonation and
unwarranted abuse of this
program by some individuals.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized email selection system (ESS) from a database of over
500,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.
This promotional program being the first of its kind will now take
place annually and we hope with part of your winning you will take part
in our next year Eight
Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pound Sterlings International Lottery. To
file for your claim, you
will be contacting our Customer Service Unit, authorized to conduct the
neccessary verification
to enable you receive total payment (You will receive more information
upon your acknowledgment
of this email).
 Forward response of acknowledgement ot the above contracted agency.
This promotional lottery is promoted and sponsored by software
corporations and other private organizations and we intend to use this
medium to help individuals
generate fortunes which would encourage them to expand their business
frontiers thereby creating
more opportunities and assisting with humanitarian concerns within
their immediate environment.
 
All winning must be claimed not later than One Week of Acknowledgment.
After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union
Treasury as Unclaimed. 
After this date all winning funds will be included in our subsequent
program. In order to avoid
complications always quote your reference number in all correspondence. 
Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated
period may be forfeited to the pool without further notice. Our
European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as
soon as you contact him. 
 
NOTE: SEND YOUR RESPONSE TO
 
Customer Service Unit
CONTRACTED AGENCY: PHILLIP AND ASSOCIATES LTD, UK
Mr.Phillip Wood.
Tel: + (44) 702 402 6240 + (44) 704 570  2135
Email: winning_claimdept@yahoo.co.uk
   
20 Lausanne Road London,
SW2 3JB ENGLAND.U.K
Programs and Events Department
The  United Kingdom - Frontline Group
The National Lottery,
P.O. Box 251,
Watford
WD1 8GD
Online coordinator.                  TRACK    Nº:51024060210   
Material Copyright © 2006 The Lottery Co. Ltd. .
The Lottery Company  www.Freelotto.com and www.lotto24.co.uk in
affiliation with, associated with or approved or endorsed by Frontline
Group plc or The National
Lottery Commission.
 ===========================================================
The Frontline Lottery Promos Awards is proudly sponsored by the
Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba,
Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other international
IT companies. The Frontline LOTTERY internet draw in each quater of
theyear and is so organized
to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. We are
proud to say that up to One
Million Pounds are won annually in more than 150 Countries worldwide..

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