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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims 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 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.
  • @yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "james rowlland" <jam_rowlland02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: slifymanager44@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:33:08 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATION,YOU HAVE WON

          
 

                                FREE UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY    

 

Date:....................... 29/03/2007
Ref:......................... 475061725
Batch: .............7056490902/188
Winning no:...... GB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS

 

ATTENTION:

 

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 27th March 2007 from the Universal International Lottery programme.

 

Which is fully based on an lectronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses Your name was attached to ticket number; 47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$24,000,000.00 shared among twenty four lucky winners in this category.

 

All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base. Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European representative office in Spain, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$1,000,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office in Valencia. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE Simply contact our fiducial agent,DR. SMITH WALKER  slifymanager44@yahoo.co.uk at to file for your claim .

 

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone/fax numbers to help locate your file easily. For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of oursecurity protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the 17th of April 2007; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity Congratulations once again on your winnings!!! Best Regards
Carol Jones(co-ordinator)

 

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS
AGENT DR. SMITH WALKER  slifymanager44@yahoo.co.uk ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO

DISQUALIFICATION. WINNERS BELOW THE AGES OF EIGHTEEN (18)YEARS WILL
AUTOMATICALLY BE DISQULIFIED
Officer).
                                                          

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