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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)
• 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.
  • +447045703518 (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.
  • uknationallottery.claimsdept@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • betty1631@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "joel.tel" <joel.tel@terra.com.br>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 08:55:34 -0300
Subject: En:Certified Winner.........Confirm Reciept..........You Won!!



De:"LOTTERY BOARD" info_winner2@bellsouth.net

Para:webinfo@uklottery.org

Cópia:

Data:Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:49:24 -0400

Assunto:Certified Winner.........Confirm Reciept..........You Won!!

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are
one of our first quarter winners of the UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL
LOTTERY,international Lottery programs. held today the 10th of
April,2007.Theselection was made from the list of over 21,000
e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an
advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no
ticketswere sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged
as one of three winners in the category \\\\\\\"A\\\\\\\" with the
following
winninginformations: You have therefore been approved to claim a total
sum of £1,000,000 (One million pounds sterling).

REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/786543X4/28
BATCH NUMBER:034/099/YX46
TICKET NUMBER:005-4432-971-878

To file for your claim, Contact the processing Consultant:

Mr. Perry Coleman
Tel: +44 704 570 3518
Fax: +44 707 570 0299
E MAIL: uknationallottery.claimsdept@yahoo.co.uk

Do fill out the claims form to Mr. Perry Coleman in other to
processthe claims of your prize without delay.

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM:
1.FULL NAMES:_____________________
2.ADDRESS:________________________
3.SEX:_____________________________
4.AGE:____________________________
5.MARITAL STATUS:________________
6.OCCUPATION:____________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:____________
9.AMOUNT WON:__________________
10. COUNTRY______________________

Reply to this confidential email account:
uknationallottery.claimsdept@yahoo.co.uk


Sincerely,
Mrs. Mariam Wilcox
UK NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY.
betty1631@hotmail.com

Anti-fraud resources:

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