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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "national lottery.com" <randomdraw_11@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:14:46 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS/WINNING NOTIFICATION:

 

       

  Form Mrs. Teresa Allan United Kingdom Zonal Co-coordinator
National Lottery United Kingdom
Spectrum Money Mart United Kingdom
No.1a-Bexon Court Carlton
Nottingham Shire Nottingham NG4 1SQ Essex
PO Box 1010
Essex United Kingdom.
Customer Service: 680 NCA 85914
Ref: EAASL/94-6OYI-04
Batch: 11/6/DC34 BBN
Zonal Draw No: GMLA2-005
Grand Draw No: 12099

                                                  Dear Sir/Madam: 

               Euro-Afro-America Sweepstake Lottery Winning Notification 
                                 

Please View The UK National Lottery Website :http://lottery.co.uk/res/

 

We happily announce to you the winner of the Euro-Afro-American Sweepstake Lottery International programs draws held on the  Saturday 30 June 2007 Essex United Kingdom. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9564 75604545 100 with serial number 46560 drew the winning  numbers are,

         

                                             National Lottery results

 

which subsequently won you the lottery in the second category (cot2).
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £820,000.00 (Eighty Hundred and Twenty Thousand British Pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02. This is from a total cash prize of £1100,000,00 Million British pounds sterling, shared amongst the first One-Hundred and thirty-four (134) lucky winners in this category worldwide.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Euro booklet representative office in Africa as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £820,000.00 (Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand British pounds sterling) would be released to you immediately you contact our agent office located in South Africa. Our agent will commence the process to release of your winning prize as soon as you contact their office. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000,00 companies and personal emails.

 

This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your winning prize remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.

 

To claim your winning prize, please contact:
Mr. William Pedro,
Foreign Service Manager
Overseas Subscribers Agents
Freedom Park Building Unit 1440
Johannesburg (Gauteng) 2001 South Africa

Tel: +27-83-361-9933

Fax: +27-86-512-2850

Email:mrwilliamster@webmail.co.za

 

Please be informed that all winning prize must be claimed on or before the

31 of AUG 2007To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with our designated agents.

 

Below is the required information:

FULL Name:...................................................................................

ADDRESS:.......................................................................................

OCCUPATION:..................................................................................
AGE:.................................................................................................
SEX:..................................................................................................
NATIONALITY:...................................................................................
TELEPHONE NUMBER:.......................................................................

EMAIL ADDRESS:..............................................................................

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:..........................................................

 

........................................................................................................................................

 

As soon as all the requested details are received, your claim Agent will therefore Write a letter of claim on your behalf and submit it to our  paying Bank for processing ,approval/release of your fund. And once this is done the bank will contact you for verification.

 

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program that has successfully won this competition.

Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
Sincerely,

Mrs.Teresa Allan
United Kingdom Zonal Co-coordinator.
Mr.Alexander Davis
United Kingdom Zonal Secretary General.

 

PAST WINNERS: 

 

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