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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
  • "uk national lottery inc." (no such lottery exists)
• 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.
  • +447035900409 (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.
  • claimsdepartment_101@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: claimsdepartment_101@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 03:59:17 +0100
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION CONGRATULATION YOUR EMAIL HAVE WON

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY


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


WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (P479) of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program
held on May 2th 2007.Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the
lucky numbers: which subsequently won you the lottery in
the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to claim a
total sum of £600,000 (Six hundred and fifty thousand
pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
£1,000,000 shared amongst the first Four (4) 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. Please note that your lucky winning
number falls within our European booklet representative
office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.In view
of this, your £600,000 (Six hundred and fifty thousand
pounds sterlings)would be released to you by any of our
payment offices in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence theprocess to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact
him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your
winning information confidential your claim is processed and
your money remitted to you in whatever 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.

This is part ) of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claims and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be
warned. To file for your claim, please contact our
fiduciaragent with your complete details:

(1)COMPLETE LEGAL NAMES:

(2)CURRENT CONTACT ADDRESS/TELEPHONE:NUMBERS:

(3)OCCUPATION:

(4)REFERENCE/BATCH/DRAW NUMBERS:



To file for your claim, please contact our fiducial agent:
Mr. Russell Weaver

E-mail:claimsdepartment_101@yahoo.com.hk

Phone:+44-703-590-0409

Phone:+44-704-570-5554

CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE MEMBERS AND STAFF OF UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Brian Hunt
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY



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