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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)
  • "uk national lottery inc." (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.
  • +447011128555 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448701313431 (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.
  • m_kurrein000@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Helen Walter <hwalter41@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <m_kurrein000@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:17:08 +0000
Subject: Winning Notification!!!




ONLINE
NOTIFICATION UNIT.UK
e-LOTTERY.51
CONWAY ROAD COLWYN BAY LL29 7AW UNITED
KINGDOM.REF No: UKL/478593G9/19BATCH No:
074/05/ZY369TICKET No: 112-4540-525-106SERIAL No: S/N-00168lucky
Numbers: 19-37-06-13-29

20/07/2007Congratulations,This is to
inform you that your e-mail have beenselected as a winner for a cash prize
of£715,000.00(Seven Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Great
Britain Pounds)
on our ONLINE SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTION program which was held today in
London, United Kingdom.The online draws was conducted by a
randomselection of email addresses from an exclusive list of50,000
E-mail addresses of individuals and corporatebodies picked by an advanced
automated random computersearch from the internet .Your e-mail address
attachedto ticket number: 112-4540-525-106 with
SERIAL No:S/N-00168 drew the lucky Numbers: 19-37-06-13-29, anda BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369 which subsequently won youthe lottery in
the second category.To file your claim, do
contact our fiduciaryagent/Lawyer assigned to your file via email as
givenin the contact details below ;

Providing your
:
Full
NameAge
Telephone Number

Country of Residence
Reference Number (UKL/478593G9/19)

Winning Email
Address

to commence the process of
releasing your cash prize. INDICATEPREFERRED MODE OF PRIZE
COLLECTION:
(A) COURIER
DELIVERY
(B) PICK UP

(C) BANK
TRANSFER


Congratulations once more from all members and staffsof this
program. Thank you for being a part of thisonline lottery
promotion.
Martin
Kurreinhttp://www.mkurrein.co.uk/TEL:+447011128555TEL:+447024069989Fax :
+44-870-131-3431EMAIL:m_kurrein000@yahoo.co.uk

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Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire.
Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the
end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.


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