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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.
• 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 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.
  • claimsagentmark1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: LOTTERY BOARD <zonal_cordinator_001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <claimsagentmark1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:03:16 -0400
Subject: WINNER!!!....753,437.00GBP



UK INTERNATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY RESULT !!!OFFICE: 165 FULHAM PALACE RD. W6 8JB UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458WINNING NOTIFICATION U.K National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program held by Great Britan. For This Mid Year 2007, Your email account have been picked as a winner of Seven hundred And Fifty Three Thousand Four Hundred And Thirty Seven(753,437.00). This results is now released to you.This promotion is part of this year uk nationallottery email users bonaza.U.K National Lottery is approved by the British Game Board Please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence. Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program,For the release of your winning,collect your winning before 2weeks.kindly submit the completed form to your verification unit: VERIFICATION FORM BELOW:*Name of Winner: *Address: *City/State: *Nationlity:*Sex: *Email Address *Ref no:*Batch no: *Phone no:*Occupation:*Age:*Amount won.Contact:Dr Mark WhiteEmail Adress:claimsagentmark1@yahoo.co.uk Zonal Coordinator, U.K National Lottery .
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