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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.
  • +447024036554 (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.
  • antony_green106@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: martin schorn <fux46@yahoo.de>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:09:31 +0100 (CET)
Subject: FWD: BRITISH LOTTERY




The Lottery Company <online583940@telkomsa.net> schrieb: Datum: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:08:56 +0200 (SAST)
Betreff: BRITISH LOTTERY
Von: "The Lottery Company" <online583940@telkomsa.net>




BRITISH LOTTERY
The Lottery Company
PO Box 789
HG1 2YR
Dear Winner,
We happily announce to you the Draw Number:114 of the BRITISH ONLINE
LOTTERY DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME. You have therefore won the sum prize of
£710,000 (SEVEN HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND,POUNDS STERLING ) from
BRITISH
LOTTERY on our 2007 charity bonanza.
The winning ticket was selected from a Data Base of Internet Email
Users,
from which your email Address came out as the winning coupon.
We hereby urge you to claim the winning amount quickly as this is a
reversion of the fund to our following month.
You are therefore requested to contact immediately our Claims
Department
below, quoting your winning number: WINNING NUMER-06010110.
Name: Dr.OWEN GREEN
Foreign Services Validating Officer
Email:ANTONY_GREEN106@yahoo.co.uk
Tell: +4470-2403-6554
You are also to Provide the following information needed for the
processing of your winning claim/prize.
(a) Your full Name and Address.
(b) Your Telephone and fax numbers
(c) You tax I.D.Number (if any).
(d) Your country of origin
(e) Your winning number
Congratulations from me and all members of our staff.
Best Regards,
MRS KATE BROWN
Claims Department..
The Lottery Company
England




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