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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")
  • "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.
  • john_raymond@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD" <markcooker1@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: john_raymond@sify.com
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:57:22 +0000
Subject: Be Happy, you won


THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
Ref Number: OSL/655/049/07
Batch Number: AT-640-SB05-03
April 12th, 2007.

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (#1009) of the UK INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL
LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on April 11th, 2007.
Your e-mail Address attached to ticket number: 57522465896-530 with Serial
number 3652-662 drew the lucky numbers: 77-14-18-23-31-45 which
subsequently won You the lottery in the 2nd category i.e.match 5 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of €990,513.00 (Nine
Hundred & Ninety Thousand, Five Hundred and Thirteen Euros). in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
Eighty Nine million, One hundred Forty Six thousand and seventeen Euros
shared amongst the nine (9) lucky winners in this category.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This
promotion takes place weekly. This promotional program takes place every
year, and is promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities like the
Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates of Microsoft Inc,Walt Mart Family and a number
of world richest people.

The sum of €990,513.00 (Nine Hundred & Ninety Thousand, Five Hundred and
Thirteen Euros) would be released to you by any of our payment offices. Our
agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of
your funds as soon as you make contact.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in
What ever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part! Of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program. Please be warned. To file for your claim, please complete the form
below send it to the claims agent: Email- MR JOHN RAYMOND.
EMAIL- john_raymond@sify.com

Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY and FORBES
INTERNATIONAL.

Yours Faithfully,
Mark Cooker.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY &
Forbes International Program.

You must be 16 or over to play or claim a prize









REFERENCE NUMBER: OSL/655/O49/07

FULL NAME

COMPANY NAME

FULL ADDRESS

SEX

AGE

OCCUPATION

TEL or FAX

COUNTRY

E-MAIL

PASSPORT OR LICENCE (for identification)

DATE.

N.B YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FORWARD YOUR DATAILS TO YOUR CLAIM AGENT FOR
PROCESSING MR JOHN RAYMOND.
EMAIL- John_raymond@sify.com

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