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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.
• 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.
  • +447014218214 (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.
  • custservices69@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "gerald kidney" <geraldkidney12@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:35:55 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOUR EMAIL ID WON X600,000.00

Uk National Lottery
28 TANFIELD ROAD , CROYDON. LONDON...
Ref: EGS/2251256003/02
Batch: 14/0017/1PD

WINNING NOTIFICATION

The board of directors and entire member of staff of
the National Lottery wishes to inform you of the
result of the (Email Address Ballot)online
Sweepstakes international program held at
the British Headquarter.

Your email account have been picked as a winner of
Six Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling (£600,000.00)
in cash credited to file KU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total sum of Four Million, Two hundred
Thousand Pounds Sterling (£4,200,000.00) shared
amongst seven winners.

This results is now released to you on 7st March
2007, and your email address attached to ticket
number:56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02
drew the lucky numbers 4-14-25-35-42-48 and bonus
bal37 in the Lotto, to check your results online
click on this link : http://lottery.co.uk/res/ were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
Microsoft users from company and individual email
address users.Be advice to keep your winning
information confidential until your claims have been
processed and your money remitted to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. For
the release of your winning,kindly contact your
claims supervisory officer at the British
Lottery Head Quarters, Payment
Release Order Department
Mr.Gerald Kidney
email:custservices69@yahoo.co.uk,

you are to quote your lucky numberfor confirmation on
our winning.

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications please remember to quote your reference
number in all correspondence.You are therefore
advised to give the followinginformations to the
fiduciary

via email:custservices69@yahoo.co.uk

Tel : +447014218214
+447031861045
Fax : +448717151928



Congratulations from the entire member
of staff and thank you for being
part of our email account users
program.Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Julie Van Hans,

Executive (International Sweepstakes).Dr. P.
Swier,Mr. Gerald Goodman
(Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van
DerWeijden (Manager
Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams
(Director)International
Credit (Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy
(Executive),Mr.Michael Cole
(Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer(Chairman).Affiliates
The Lottery Company
and lottery.co.uk is in no way affiliated
with,associated with or
approved or endorsed by Camelot Group plc or The
National Lottery
Commission

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