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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • ukoffice_6@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "British National Lottery" <dueprocessingunit_wins_28@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: ukoffice_6@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:08:37 +0000
Subject: RE: OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION.

                        BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY

 

Due Processing Unit (DPU)
7 Holbein Place, London, SW1W 8NR
Tel:+447 011 13 8855

Tel:+447 031 94 5411

 

                                RE: OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION. 

 

FILE REF NO: 07- 321786542
FAST NO: 2912144
LOTTO REF: HRL/0507/FAST
 
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,
This email confirms that you have received from the British National Lottery an official notification of your lotto winning in the British National Lottery Automatic Subscription Ticket Game (B.N.L.A.S.T) played  at our lottery office complex Holbein Place, London.
 
You have won a British National Lottery Prize OF 500,000 GBP (Great British Pounds), a prize payout of your winning has been approved by the British National Lottery. In ccordance with the United Kingdom lottery ordinance, you are authorized as the lotto prize winner to request claims of your winning prize.
 
The British National Lottery Automatic Subscription Ticket (B.N.L.A.S.T) Game is an online promotional program organized by the British National Lottery. A total of 500,000 different email addresses are entered for the British National Lottery  Automatic Subscription Ticket Game (B.N.L.A.S.T).
 
All email addresses entered for the game are submitted by our partner international email service providers/ marketing companies and public services providers. Winners are randomly selected systematically through our Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS). Your email ID was included among the 500,000 email addresses and entered for Batch 16125 with Ticket No. 2912144 and was luckily selected among 1-5 batch winners.
 
Note that the British National Lottery will remit prize payout to only winners who officially file in for their prize claims. You are to choose one out of the listed option by which you want your prize remitted to you:
 
(1) A certified Cheque will be issued in your name and couriered to your resident address.

(2) Traveling to our office in London for personal collection of winning prize. You are required to file your claims by contacting the Office of Due Processing Unit. 
 
Contact Person:Mr. Benson Mork

Telephone:+447 011 13 8855

Telephone:+447 031 94 5411
Contact email:ukoffice_6@yahoo.co.uk

Completely fill out the Claim Form - E provided herein and submit a completed filled form via email or send the information needed to the Due Processing Unit.
                        
                    Your winning information has been provided above. 
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APPLICATION FOR PRIZE CLAIM FORM - E (Receipt Official Notification Letter)
[FILE REF 07- 21786542]
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[FULL NAME OF WINNER]......................................................[RESIDENT
ADDRESS].........................................................[COUNTRY/
REGION]..................
[STATE].............................[DATE OF BIRTH]...../...../......... [SEX]..........
[OCCUPATION]........................[CURRENT
EMAIL].....................[TEL/FAX]...........................
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                                     WINNING INFORMATION.
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[FAST TICKET NR]........................ [LOTTERY REF NR]................
[DATE]..................................
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                               CLAIMANT SIGNATORY DECLARATION. 
I ..................................... Declare as the lotto prize winner that all information I have provided for my winning claims are true and correct information of myself. I agree with the British National lottery policy and regulation in line with my lottery claims.
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Please indicate "X" for the option you want your prize remitted to you.
Listed below is our payment modalities and option of payment.

(1) TRAVELLING TO THE UK FOR PRIZE COLLECTION:[---------------]
(2) BY COURIER DELIVERY OF YOUR PRIZE CHEQUE: [---------------]
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THIS EMAIL WAS SENT FROM THE DESK OF THE ORGANIZATION PRESIDENT, British National Lottery,ON BEHALF OF B.N.L.A.S.T GAMES 2006.CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WINNING.
 
Yours Faithfully,
For British National Lottery,
Group Co-ordinator. -BNL
Rober V. Benard.

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