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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:
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• 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.
  • +447045700747 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704714613 (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.
  • netdispatchofficer@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <wellermila@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:40:24 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ATTN:Alarica Schaefstein/CONTACT THE DISPATCH OFFICE


UKONLINE
Uk Online Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
16th May 2007.

ATTN:Alarica Schaefstein,

Thanks your for your mail. Addresses of individuals and companies from America, Asia, Australia, Canada,Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand were included as part of our International Promotions Program .


UK ONLINE LOTTERY is launching its model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of the evergrowing number of participants in our various lottery programs. This is a promotional draw which officially launches the new system. With funds accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to all winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in record time. After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database of 300,000 emails and zoning all participants by their respective continents from across the globe, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the Promotional Grand Draw prize.

This correspondence officially confirms that we are inreceipt of instructions relating to the payment of your lottery
winnings. Please contact the courier company with the following information again with your:

1. Full Names

2. Full Contact Address (including zip codes/postcodes, country)

3. Direct phone numbers (home/Mobile)

They are responsible for sending your winning certificate along with your winnings to you, through any of the options you will choose. Please try and forward to me any message you send to the courier as well as any message they equally send to you. This is for filing purposes and to avoid any difficulty in claiming your winnings.


Find below the details of the courier company.



NAME: NET DISPATCH COURIER
ADDRESS OF HEAD OFFICE: Link House, Link Place, BRIGHTON, Sussex,
BN1
7DX, ENGLAND.

EMAIL: netdispatchofficer@yahoo.co.uk
FAX: +448704714613
TEL: +447045700747

You are advised to send the courier company a mail to their
email address for their courier cost.

When contacting them, you are to include this order number as
your subject. Please you are advised to write down the order
number and save it. Instruct them on the currency that you want your to receive your winnings.


ORDER NUMBER: 657543BB


Note: you are quote your complete names, Ref/Batch Numbers and your direct phone number so that they can honor your letter.

Once again I say congratulations and always inform me with your dealings with the courier company.













Thanks.

MR. WELLER MILLA.


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