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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.
  • +447045706671 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Ben Falls <ben.falls@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:35:14 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CLAIMS PROCESSING/VERIFICATION FORM (FILL AND RETURN)



The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Fax: 44 (0)871 661 8831

Dear Lucky Winner,

Congratulations once again from all the staff here. I am in receipt of your mail and I must say that you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our winners in this year lucky dip sweepstakes. As you already know your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 25,000 website on the internet of which your email address was attached to a ticket number, and it was selected along with others as winners.

Your ticket number 56475600545 188 attached to your email address, with serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers
15 . 18 . 21 . 31 . 36 . 47 (bonus no.46), this lucky number subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of ***£1,000000.00***(One Million Pounds Sterling) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. £30,000000.00(Thirty Million Pounds Sterlin) shared amongst the first Six (6) lucky winners
in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.

I have finally verified your winnings and it's exactly with what is present on our Database. Your particulars have been documented for record purposes.

You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the transferring of your cash prize to you.Please fill in the verification form provided below:

VERIFICATION FORM
1.Full Name___________________________
2.Full Address_________________________
3.Marital Status_____________________
4.Occupation____________________
5.Age____________________________
6.Sex____________________________
7.Nationality___________________
8.Country Of Residence______________
9.Telephone Number_______________
10.Fax Number______________________
11.Ticket Number___________________
12.Reference Number_______________
13.Batch Number____________________

In receipt of your claims processing form shall commerce the progress of your prize claims.

Congratulations Once Again From All Staff And Members Of THE UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM.

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,
Mr. Ben Falls.
+447045706671




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