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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 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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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 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.
  • larryscott@atmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <vrpl@bsnl.in>
Reply-To: larryscott@atmail.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 7:51:30 +0530
Subject: YOU HAVE WON !!!!!CONGRATULATIONS


THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
MORTIMER HOUSE
MORTIMER STREET
LONDON, W1T3JH
UNITED KINGDOM
Lucky Numbers: 34.13.26.19.02.12.[08] Bonus Ball
NOTIFICATION (UK ON 2007)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch:074/05/ZY369
11,JULY,2007.=20

ATTENTION: WINNER,
You have been Selected as a winner in the UK national lottery on the
9th of july 2007.Our lottery program selection has finally been performed
today at the Marina office.UK Promotion is a joint Euro/America
private lottery registered and organized in accordance with the World Lotte=
ry
Regulation act.We the The National Lottery organizing committee are
pleased to officially notify you of the status of your email application.
An official notification of winning is hereby issued to you as your
email promotion ticket randomly drew for the Lucky Numbers:
34.13.26.19.02.12.[08]Bonus Ball,which selected your email as the 2ND winne=
r of our
lottery program you have consequently won the lottery program in the
first batch.Suffice to say here, We have officially approved a sum payout
of =C2=A3500,000.00 GBP to you as the lottery winner.This amount is from
total prize cash of =C2=A31,500,000.00 GBP randomly distributed among Three
(3)international winners selected by our Lottery Random System Selection
(LRSS).You are hereby required to contact our claims agent with your
verification form below.
MRlarrY SCOTT
CLAIMS OFFICER
EMAIL:larryscott@atmail.com

You are required to fill your claims verification form=20
FULL NAMES:........
CONTACT ADDRESS:.......
CITY:......
STATE:.......
COUNTRY:.........
ZIPCODE:....
NATIONALITY:......
SEX:.
AGE:......
STATUS.....
TEL NO:....
ADDRESS:....
NEXT OF KIN:...
OCCUPATION:.........
POSITION HELD.........
AMOUNT WON:........
MODE OF PRIZE COLLECTION:(A) CHEQUE, (B) DRAFT,=20
(C) WIRE TRANSFER
REFERENCE NO:.... BATCH NO:...........
WINNING NO:..... TICKET NO:..........
SERIAL NO:..... LOTTERY DATE:.....
Regards,=20
Yours faithfully,
MR. LARRY SCOTT
=20

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