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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 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.
  • +447011130527 (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.
  • lottery20061@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MOHAMMED SHIHAR MOHAMMED HANIFFA" <shihar7@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:14:03 -0800
Subject: Clarification


Dear Sir,


I append below the e-mail received by me saying that i wong a lottery from
your company. Can u let me know about the correctness about theis mail.

Regands

M H M Shihar


UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England

Dear Winner

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are one
of our end of year winniers of the UNITEDKINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY
international Lottery programs. held on the 6th of January, 2006.The
online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000
e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an
advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were
sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as
one of three winners in the category "A" with the following winning
information: You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£1,00,000 (One million pounds sterling).

REF No: UK/9420X2/68
BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

To file for your claim, Contact the processing Consultant:

Contact Person: Mr.Luis Santiago
Telephone: +447011130527
E-mail:lottery20061@yahoo.co.uk

Do fill out the claims form to Mr.Luis Santiago in other to process the
claims of your prize without delay.

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM
1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________
2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________________
3.SEX:_______________
4.AGE:________
5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________
6.OCCUPATION:________________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________
9.AMOUNT WON:___________________________________
10. COUNTRY________________________________

Sincerely,
Mrs. Cecilia Moore
FOR UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Anti-fraud resources:

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