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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447035900083 (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.
  • agentjohn2007@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SEALANT LOTTERY ORGANISATION ENGLAND" <agentjohn@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: agentjohn2007@myway.com
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:59:09 +0000
Subject: CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT

SEALANT LOTTERY ORGANISATION, Sealant Tolpits lane WD 18 9RN Registered in England & Wales No 2822203. Ref: Number: ENG/UK5500/5E Batch Number:UK0090/ENG LOTTERY AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Beginning of the year just concluded draws of the Sealant Lottery International. Lottery programs held in the England on 8th of febuary 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. Your email address was attached to ticket number 112-6657789005, drew the lucky numbers 1-00-234-009-44-78, batch number UK0090/ENG and consequently won the lottery in category A. You have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of 2.000,000,00 Pounds (Two Million Pounds) in credited to file lottery Ref Number ENG/UK5500/5E. This is from t
otal prize money of 2.000,000,00 Pounds shared among the international winners in categories A with Serial Number: UK/ENG/72-545/06. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn form 25,000 company email addresses and 70,000,000 individual email addresses from Australia, Africa, New Zealand, Europe, South/North America and Asia as part of International Promotional Program, which is conducted annually. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Your fund is now in the custody of a financial company insured in your File Reference number. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you keep this lottery winning strictly from public notice until your Claims has been process and your winning is remitted to you. This is part of our security policy to avoid double claims or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. This lottery program was promoted by our group of philanthropist headed by the BRITISH LOTTERY BOARD. We hope with a
part of your prize, you will participate in our next stakes 8,000,000.00 Pounds International Lottery. To file for your claim, please contact our financial claim agent:Contact details below. Mr.JOHN FRANK Sealant lottery Org Tel: +44-703-590-0083 Email:agentjohn2007@myway.com Remember that all winning prize must be claimed not later than march 30th, 2007. After this date, all lottery winning funds that are not claimed will be returned as unclaimed. Note: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to always quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence with your financial/claims agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of address, do inform your financial/claim agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for being part of our promotion.Anybody under the age of 16 is automatically disqualified. Yours sincerely, Mrs.Lisa Relly. (Lottery Co
-ordinator) Sealant Lottery Organisation NB. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.

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