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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:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "greater london" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +447031749349 (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.
  • raypayton07@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: Uk National Lottery <uknlpromo@web.de>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:35:22 +0200
Subject: {Disarmed} ATTN: WINNER! WINNER!! WINNER!!!


([UK National Lottery Logo]) [http://lottery.merseyworld.com/Logo.html] (The National Lottery logo) *Uk National Lottery
Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4TH
United Kingdom.*** * Congratulation,
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Two Million Five hundred thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings (£2.5Million) for the month of MAY 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.* *The UK NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and other email addresses. We only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying or buying ticket,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.* *You are to contact the events manager on or before your date of Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 20 days from date of Draw Notification
after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited. Make sure you enter your winning number when filling in your details to the event manager. Here are your winning numbers;



These are your identification numbers:

Batch number.....................YM 09102XN
Reff number.......................YM35447XN*
*These numbers fall within your Location file, you are requested to contact the events manager, send your winning identification numbers to enable them verify your claims.* *How ever you will have to fill and submit this form to the event **manager for verification & direction on how you can claim your winning fund.

1. Full name..............
2. Telephone Numbers......
3. Sex....................
4. Next Of Kin............
5. State:.................
6. Country..............
7. Your Reference...................**8. Batch number......................**9. Winning number.............** CONTACT EVENT MANAGER
Name: Mr Ray Payton E-mail: raypayton07@yahoo.co.uk *Telephone Number +44-703-174-9349 Thank you and accept my hearty congratulations once
again!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs Sandra Kate
(Uk National Lottery Coordinator).



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