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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +447031849591 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704795051 (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.
  • mr.maclord_officialclaimsagent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "E-Lottery Multi-Win Syndicate E-Lottery Multi-Win Syndicate"
<e-syndicateprommo_000_000_@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: mr.maclord_officialclaimsagent@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:33:04 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR LUCKY WINNING!

FROM: e-lottery Syndicate HQ,
VWD Member Support Commodore
House 51 Conway Road Colwyn Bay
LL29 7AW United Kingdom
Office of the Coordinator General,
E-LOTTERY MULTI-WIN SYNDICATE
Your Subscription No: NS203093311 
Lottery Play List – 04055                 
 
Dear e-lottery winner:
 
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR LUCKY WINNING! 
 
This is an official notification issued by the E-Lottery syndicate, organizers of the e-lottery multi-win syndicate. This message confirms that you have received from e-lottery multi-win syndicate a notification of your lotto prize winning in the E-LOTTERY MEGA SHARE PLUS for e-lottery draws 04 held on April 2nd 2007.
 
Your Subscription Ticket is No: NS203095551
Winning Group Draw: 04
Winning Cash Prize: £700,000, British Pounds
 
You have won an e-lottery Cash Prize of £700,000,GBP Seven Hundred Thousand British Pounds, a prize payout of your winning has been approved by the E-Lottery Multi Syndicate. In accordance with the E-lottery prize remittance, you are authorized as the official prize winner to request claims of your winning prize by contacting the official e-Lottery Claims Officer.
 
FOR PRIZE REMMITANCE CONTACT:
OFFICE: Prize Remittance Division
CONTACT OFFICER: Mr.Maclords Henderson
Email: mr.maclord_officialclaimsagent@yahoo.co.uk 
Phone:   +44-703-184-9591
Phone:   +44-703-184-9629
Fax:       +44-870-479-5051                    

                                                       
Completely fill out the Official Claim Form - E provided herein and submit a completed filled form via email or fax to the Prize Remittance Division. Your winning information has been provided above.
########################################################################################
                               LOTTO PAYOUT CLAIMS FORM – E
                   (Receipt Official Notification Letter) FILE REF: 0140533
########################################################################################
[FULL NAME OF WINNER].............................
 
[RESIDENT ADDRESS]................................
 
[COUNTRY/ REGION]...[STATE]...[DATE OF BIRTH]..../..../.... 
 
[AGE]......................................................
 
[SEX]...........[OCCUPATION]..............[CURRENT EMAIL ADDRESS ]...............
 
[TELEPHONE].......................[FAX]....................

[RELIGION]............................................
=============================================================================
 WINNING INFORMATION - FOR OFFICIAL PRIZE CLAIMS
==============================================================================
[Subscription Ticket No]...........[Winning Group No]........[DATE]...........
==============================================================================
                                CLAIMANT SIGNATORY DECLARATION
I .......................Declare as the lotto prizewinner that all information I have provided
for my winning claims is true and correct information of myself. I agree with the E-LOTTO GROUP PROMOTION lottery policy and regulation in line with my lottery winning claims.
=============================================================================
About E-lottery: The e-Lottery Multi Syndicate is an online promotional lottery program organized by the e-LOTTERY SYNDICATE registered in the United Kingdom since April 2002. Our operational license no is GB2035495 E-lottery Winners are randomly selected systematically through our Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS). Your email ID was included among the 1,000,000 email addresses and entered for Batch 00125 with Subscription Ticket is No: NS203095551 and was luckily selected among 5 group winners. A total of 1,000,000 different email addresses are entered for the e-lottery Syndicate.
 
All email addresses entered for the game are submitted by our affiliate sponsors via online subscription. Please if your email does not support such notification due to the third party agreement Delete the content of this email and do not respond for winning claims.

It is part of our security measures for all winner's to keep winning information confidential until prize is been remitted  to avoid false or double claimings.This is also part of our security protocol to avoid unwarranted taking advantage of this program of non-participant and unofficial personnel.
 
THIS EMAIL WAS SENT FROM THE DESK OF THE CO-ORDINATOR GENERAL ON BEHALF OF E-LOTTERY MULTI SYNDICATE.
 
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WINNING.

SINCENCERLY,
Tom Brodie
(Len Fitzgerald.)
Co-founder, E-Lottery Ltd.        
(E-LOTTERY COORDINATOR)
 E-LOTTERY SYNDICATE.

                           Copyright © e-LOTTERY MULTI SYNDICATE INC. 2007
                          

 

  

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