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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:
  • "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.
  • companyinfo_06@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: NATIONAL LOTTO UK <nationallotto_uk07@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: companyinfo_06@sify.com
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:54:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!




UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERTY 2007











Monmouth House 40 Artillery Lane,London,E1 7LS
Dear Winner ,

RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the online cyber lotto Draws of the Uk national million lotto held on the 23rd Jan 2007.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 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 ten winners in the category "A" with the following particulars:

(i) Winning numbers: 43-11-44-37-10-43
(ii) Batch number: 638901527-AMB/06
(iii) Ref. Number: 132/756/4534
Hence you are eligible for the prize of THREE MILLION POUNDS.
Please contact the under listed Fiduciary Coordinator as soon as possible for processing of your claim:

Name:Mr. Smith Phillip
E-mail address: companyinfo_06@sify.com

When making your claims quote your email code number in the subject of your email.You are therefore advice to take this as top most secret and strictly confidential from any third party until your winning certified bank cheque has been delivered to you.This is to avoid the diversion and misappropriation of winners funds. Please Be Warned !!!....

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
MIKE BALLY
PROMOTION MANAGER


LAST WINNERS ON BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE GAME.

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.


Yours faithfully,
MR SAMSON SHAWN
Director.International Promotions Unit,





Copyright © 1994-2007 The Uk National Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline


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