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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)
• 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" <uknationalottery07@rediffmail.com>
Date: 8 Jul 2007 23:14:58 -0000
Subject: {Disarmed} UK NATIONAL LOTTERY CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM;
















&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;P O BOX 1010 LIVERPOOL, L70 1NL
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; UNITED KINGDOM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Customer Services)
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

CONGRATULATIONS:&nbsp;


&nbsp;I am Susan Oxford your fiducairy agent for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly until the end of the year.&nbsp;&nbsp;(31/12/2007)
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.&nbsp;&nbsp;(56475600545188)&nbsp;&nbsp; In view of this, your £100,000.00 (&nbsp;One hundred thousand pound) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in London.

In order to verify your winnings, we need your particulars for record purposes.
Attached here is a copy of your&nbsp; verifications form, please fill&nbsp; accordingly so as to proceed with your winnings.

Once again congratulations from all the staff.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



UK&nbsp;NATIONAL LOTTERY CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM;1.FULL NAMES : ...................................................................................2.FULL POSTAL ADDRESS : .................................................................3.SEX : ..................................................................................................4.AGE : ..................................................................................................5.MARITAL STATUS : ............................................................................6.OCCUPATION : ...................................................................................7.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS : .............................................................8.TELEPHONE NUMBER : ......................................................................9.DRAW NUMBER : ...............................................................................10.TICKET NUMBER : ............................................................................11.SERIAL NUMBER : ............................................................................12.SCAN COPY OF ID&nbsp;: ............................................................................ 13. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN&nbsp;: ...................................................................

Regards

Susan Oxford



&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; UK NATIONAL LOTTERY WINNERS

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