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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.
  • +447011152880 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704799699 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: FREELOTTO COMPANY <infodesk00123@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:27:57 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re:Notice.


THE FREELOTTO COMPANY
UK OFFICE
211,Foster road
Liverpool,England
G 124MJ.
14-01-07

Dear Winner,

Notification of Winning
We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the FreeLotto draw held on the 1st of December 2006. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual FreeLotto Draw.
Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of £258,760:00 pounds (Two hundred and fifty eight thousand, seven hundred and sixty pounds)only.The following particularsare attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-32
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) Ref number: FL/04/736207104/UK

Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:
Mr.Nikolaos Kanakis
Client Sevice Manager
Blue-Sky Consulting U.K
(Event Managers & Consultants)

TEL: +44 701 115 2880 Hotline
+44 702 406 3068
+44 703 184 0468
+44 703 186 0691
Fax: +44 870 479 9699

N.B: Winnings not acknowledged and claimed within one week of notification will be void.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims officer. Winners must send thier names,address,telephone number and means of identification to claim officer, via email or fax, to process the immediate payment of your prize.Once again on behalf of all our staff,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Julia Simson (Mrs.)
Promotions
Manager
The Freelotto company
UK & Europe.
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The FreeLotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and aconglomeration of other international IT companies.
The freelotto internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.
We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.


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