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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:
  • "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
• 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.
  • +447011133047 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: BARCLAYS BANK UK <barclbkplc0@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: info@barclays.e-bankers.org.uk
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:26:51 +0100 (BST)
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?BARCLAYS=20BANK=20PLC=AE=20?=




BARCLAYS BANK PLC®
1 CHURCHILL PLACE, LONDON E14 5HP,
LONDON, UK.
13Th July, 2007.

Attention: ,

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your mail. We are pleased to officially valid date the winning notification we received from the Honda Company International Lottery Promotion.furthermore in response to your mail, you are to abide with the rules of this Bank, I have tried with all possible proof within my reach and still you are not convinced, there nothing that can be done from my part.

Morealso what ever your decisions will be after reading this mail, either you are still not convinced you will be then required to send us a letter from your attorney stating the reasons why you are forfieting your winnings.

Have a nice day.


Yours in service,

Herod Jorgensen (Sir)
(HEAD OF OPERATION)
FOREIGN/LOCAL OPERATIONS
BARCLAYS BANK PLC®
Tel: +44-701-113-3047
Fax: +44-703-040-1224

COPYRIGHT © 2007 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED






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