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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.
  • +448701333017 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447879208540

Fraud email example:

From: Ken Harrison <announcer@britishinternetpromotion.com>
Reply-To: jeffreyedward@ibritishpromotion.com
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:08:58 +0000
Subject: FINAL NOTIFICATION


BRITISH INTERNET PROMOTIONS,
1 SAINT JAMES WAYS
LONDON SW2,
ENGLAND.
REF NUMBER: BIP/430111/06
BATCH NUMBER: 430/01066/XXGB
DATE: 06-02-07

AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the recent result of BRITISH INTERNET PROMOTION held on 25 November 2006.

Your E-mail Address attached to ticket number 1776-32871511 with serial numbers 9331-40 drew the lucky numbers 02 - 09 - 13 - 21 - 29 - 54 which consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category .You have therefore been approved for the lump sum payout of £550,000.00(Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pound Sterling credited to file number EUIP/430111/06.This is from the total cash prize of £20,450,550.00 GBP(Twenty Million, Four Hundred and fifty Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty Pounds Only) Shared among the fourteen international winners in different categories .

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 550,000 E-mail Addresses from Asia, Australia, Middle East, Europe, United State of America, Canada, South-America and Africa, as part of our international promotion programs which we conduct in the month of November every years .We hope that your Email address will draw a bigger cash prize in the subsequent programs.

To begin your lottery claims please contact: Jeffrey Edward. (Customer Service Manager) through Direct Phone: +44 787 920 8540 Fax No: +44 870 133 30177 and email jeffreyedward@ibritishpromotion.com for necessary assistance as regards to your claim and final release of the prize money to your designated bank account. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 21st February 2007.

After this date all the unclaimed fund will be returned to the INLAND REVENUE. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence with us Congratulations on behalf of our managements.

Mr Ken Harrison
MANAGER (LONDON)

EUROPEAN UNION INTERNET PROMOTION -2007.ALL o right reserved .CODEX- OSAGENT-GS-(LONDON).

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