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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "euro-afro-american-sweepstake lottery" (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.
  • +44
• 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.
  • johonkruma103@yahoo.co.uk
  • johonkruma@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "UK LOTTERY DRAW" <uk-lot-draw-02@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 18:50:43 +0000
Subject: FILE NUMBER: RPC/9080115322/44.

Euro-Afro-American-Sweepstake Lottery

Headquarters: 1a, Bexon Court Carlton Nottingham shire Nottingham NG4 1SQ Essex, United Kingdom

 CONGRATULATIONS!!!!CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

 

 
Batch: 14/211/0374  
Ref: BTL/311OXI/02

                                          

                                     WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

We happily announce to you the draw of the British lottery  programs held  in London, Your e-mail address attached, to ticket number: 694 75600545 721 with Serial number: 886/04 drew the lucky numbers:01-6-2-13-35-17, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have  therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of £250,000.00( Two Hundred & Fifty Thousand British Pouns  ) in cash credited to file number: RPC/9080115322/44.

 

This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever of British Lottery, The estimated 125 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in U.K. history.The biggest was the 363 million pounds  jackpot that went to two winners in a May 2006 drawing of The Big Game, Mega Millions' predecessor. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our African booklet representative office in Africa as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your £250,000.00( Two Hundred & Fifty Thousand British Pouns ) would be released to you by our affiliated bank.

 

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies, not tickets were sold.This promotion takes place annually.

 

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary African agent with the below details for processing of your claims immediatly you recieve this mail.

 

AGENT:  Mr. John Kruma

Tel: +44 7031844355

FAX:+ 44 8704792215

Email: johonkruma103@yahoo.co.uk

johonkruma@hotmail.com

 

 

Contact him with your below information to enable him secure your file and process your winning prize:

 

1) Your Full names:

2) Your credited file number:

3) Your occupation:

4) Your direct phone & fax numbers:

5) Your Age:

6) Your Nationality:

 

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your file numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent. Please take note; No tickets were sold in these promotional programme. The details of your claim must be kept confidential until the redemption of your prize to avoid complications in your claim.

 

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this programme.Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery programme.

 

Sincerely,

Mrs Tracy Cook 

ZONAL COORDINATOR  
 

LAST WINNERS ON BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE GAME.

    

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