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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:
  • "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +4407023053577
• 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.
  • gary_woodgate02@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: CPolk37276@aol.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:24:31 EDT
Subject: BATCH: 2005MJL-01


From: _wajmal@onetel.com_ (mailto:wajmal@onetel.com)
Reply To: _gary_woodgate02@yahoo.co.uk_ (mailto:gary_woodgate02@yahoo.co.uk)



**********************************************************
ROYAL HERITAGE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
HEADQUARTERS UNITED KINGDOM.
P.O Box 1103 Denham Street,
39 Pendleton Place, Greenwich,
London, SE10 0RX8.
Tel: +44(0)702 305 3577
Fax: +44 (0)703 040 3567
**********************************************************
GAMBLING BOARD OF GREAT BRITAIN
LICENSED. ONLINE BALLOT LOTTERY
(Registration 70339411).
REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT.
**********************************************************
REF NO: RHLP/200-26937564-75600545-188
BATCH: 2005MJL-01
(No Ticket Sold)
**********************************************************
ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION. AWARD PRESENTATION
CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM
Lucky winner,
We happily announce to you the draw of the ROYAL HERITAGE MEGA JACKPOT
LOTTERY
WINNINGS PROGRAMS held on the 20th of June 2007 in London. Therefore you do
not
need to buy ticket to enter for it Your e-mail address attached to Reference
number: RHLP/2006-26954564- 5600-188 with Serial number 76091/02 drew the
lucky
numbers: 19-6-26-13-2-7, which subsequently won you the lottery prize in the
3rd category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
GBP£5,500,000.00 POUNDS (Five million five hundred thousand Great Britain
pounds) in cash credited to file W2045/1108309/06. This is from a total cash
prize of £ 27,500,000.00 POUNDS, shared among the five (5) international
winners in this category of this year Lottery Program Jackpot as the 2nd
largest ever for the European Lottery.

The estimated £73 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in the European
history. The biggest was the £363 million jackpot that went to two winners
in a
May 2000 draw of the big game mega millions predeceases or please note that
you’re lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative
office in UK as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your
GBP£5,500,000.00 POUNDS (Five million five hundred thousand Great Britain
pounds) would be released to you by one of our agent.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of
your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him the funds will be
transferred to you through a private offshore bank who is one of our
sponsors.
All participants were selected randomly (Electronically Generated) from
the 'World Wide Web' site through a computer ballot system and extracted from
over 100,000 company addresses. This promotion takes place quarterly.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information’s
confidential till your claim is processed and your money transferred to your
designated bank account of your choice. This is a part of our precautionary
measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by
some
unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.

ELIGIBILITY:
This promotion is offered electronically via the Internet and is open to all
persons from age 18 years and above with a valid email address. Principals
and
employees of the Royal Heritage Lottery International and its respective
Parents, subsidiaries and their immediate families are not eligible to
partake
in his promotion.

CLAIMS PROCEDURES:
It is our standard practice to allocate agents for the processing of claims
application. It is even more imperative for oversea winners. To begin your
claims therefore, you are advised as a matter of urgency, you are to contact
the under listed officer by email for processing and remittance of your prize
money to you. Your assigned claims officer contact informational is:

Name: Mr. Gary Woodgate
Email:gary_woodgate02@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +44(0)704-573-4288

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 5th of Junly,
2007. All funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be penalized
accordingly. Do email the above email addresses from now on, you are to
contact
your assigned claims officer.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press
anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be
further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the
end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Yours, Truly
Mrs. Karen Debbie



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