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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:
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447035902394 (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.
  • mrcoker_standardtrust001@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Standard Trust Bank Ltd" <mrcoker_standardtrust001@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 04:32:04 -0600
Subject: STANDARD TRUST BANK LTD***PRIZE WINNER***TRANSACTION FILE # STB20259

Standard Trust Bank Ltd

133 Long Acre,

London, WC2E 9DT,

UK.

Tel: +44 703 590 2394

E-mail: mrcoker_standardtrust001@hotmail.com

Transaction File # STB20259

ATTN: Johnny Zweetsok,

 

Good day to you. With details provided in your Funds release form, as well as your winning Verification form which was made available to us by the UK-STAKE NATIONAL LOTTERY as confirmed by you shows that You have been officially cleared by the verification department of the UK-STAKE NATIONAL LOTTERY Office for payment.

 

We wish to bring to your notice that your winning funds in our automated online system has been moved to accessible suspense Account. Your fund in our automated online system is in bond/insured as a result of this insurance policy that covers your money no amount can be deducted or removed from your money until it gets to your nominated bank account and it also does not yield interest because of the insurance, this is for the safety of your funds.

Note that before the said amount can be transfer to you, you must have to activate a valid online banking account with in our Bank the paying out bank, to activate online banking  account that will cost you some fees which will not be ducted from your winnings because it is covered by a hardcover insurance policy, that makes it impossible to deduct any fees before it has to be remitted to you.

 

Any one found in deducting from your winning fund the UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY might take actions against the person he/she will be taken to the lawcourt.

it is important to activate the account with us to enable us transfer your winning prize into your personal banking account in your country. Secondly because you are a non-residence of this country and the prize money is in a suspense account we can not deduct nor make any transfers from a suspense account unless you have an existing account with the firm where the money is.

 

Our Accounts department awaits you to make a choice on type of account you hope to open pending on when you make payment for the opening of account.Open your account. or at termination of your account. This amount is payable one time only and is fully refundable if we are unable to activate your account.

 

ACCOUNT TYPE STATED BELOW

 

A. REGULAR ACCOUNT: The initial deposit is 450.00Pounds. The Maximum transfer possible within a month is 1,500,000.00Pounds. 
 
B. DAILY ACCOUNT: The initial deposit is 900.00Pounds. The Maximum transfer possible within a month is 2,500,000Pounds. 
 
C. PREMIUM ACCOUNT: The initial deposit is  1,300.00GBP. The transfer possible within a month from this account is 15,000,000.00Pounds  (Fifteen Million Pounds). 
 
D. PLATINUM ACCOUNT: The initial deposit is 3,100.00Pounds. The maximum transfer possible from this account within a month is $20,000,000.00GBP (Twenty Million Pounds) and above.

 

For your account to be activated immediately, you are required to transfer the initial deposit which will be deposited in your account to activate the account.

 

Advice us when payment can be made so that we can send to you payment modalities and also which of the following account you wish to operate with us.
 
Your urgent response will be highly appriciated, and we are glad to be of servces to you.

 

Best Regards

Mr. Lawrence Coker

Funds Wire Transfer Officer. 
Tel: +44 701 421 9968

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This private and confidential e-mail has been sent to you by Standard Trust Bank Ltd. This is a limited company, registered in London under number 3693372.

If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail and have received it in error, please notify us via return or call the number above, and then delete it from your mailbox.

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