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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:
  • "international lottery programme" (no such lottery exists)
  • "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!
• 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.
  • +447011136335 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • sirharrisonfinchley@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UK LOTTERY <notified3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <sirharrisonfinchley@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:03:24 +0000
Subject: REF No: Uknl/9420X2/68 (Emerged Winner)



UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:P O Box 3321 Liverpool, L70 1XL UNITED KINGDOM(Customer Services)FROM: UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY, WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A"WINNERUK NATIONAL LOTTERY PRIZE JACKPOT WINNING NOTIFICATIONATTENTION Winner,This is to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual finaldraws ofUNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY, international Lottery programme. Theonlinecyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mailaddresses of individual and corporate bodies round the globe , pickedby anadvanced automated random computer search from the internet, no ticketsweresold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emergedas oneof two winners in the category "A" with the following winninginformation:REF No: Uk/9420X2/68BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369TICKET No: 20465463-7644SERIAL No: S/N-00168WINNING No: ZSD-13-865-37-1032You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prizeof£450,000.00 (Four Hundred and Fifthy Thousand Pounds) each from thetotalpayout.Your prize award has been issued with your e-mail address and will betransferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutoryobligations,verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claimsprocessing of your winnings prize you are advised to contact FUNDSRELEASE/TRANSFER MANAGER (Mr Harrison Finchley ) of SEA-GATE FINANCIALTRUSTFUNDS with his contact details as highlighted below.***************************************************SEA-GATE FINANCIAL TRUST FUNDSName:Sir. Harrison Finchley.Tel: +447011136335.Email: sirharrisonfinchley@yahoo.co.uk*****************************************************Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. Youare tokeep all lottory information away from the general public especiallyyourreference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of doubleclaimswill not be entertained). You are hereby advice to send via- email thedetails below for Processing of your Claims to the transfer manager ofSEA-GATEFINANCIAL TRUST FUNDS as noted above.(1) FULL NAME :(2) FULL ADDRESS :(3) NATIONALITY:(4) AGE:(5) OCCUPATION:(6) WINNING EMAIL:(7) TELEPHONE /FAX NUMBER:(8) ANNUAL INCOME :(9) SEX:(10)MARITAL STATUS :NOTE: YOU ARE TO PROCEED AS INSTRUCTED.Congratulations once more from our members and staff ,thank you forbeing partof our promotional program.Sincerely,Mr Richard K. LloydZONAL CO-ORDINATOR.
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