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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:

• 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: Mark Donald <fid_mark@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:25:52 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Claims Verification process


Dear Winner,
Congratulations once again from all the staff here. For the avoidance of doubt, Your email address happen to be one of the emails chosen this quarter from our new java-based software that randomly selects email addresses from the web.
Participants were selected from the registered email addresses in the Public Key Server -- Index ,it was drawn from a pool of over 125,000 names in this batch ,participants were taken from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions programme conducted to encourage prospective overseas entries and the utilization of the internet.
So in order to verify your winnings,we need your winning and personal data for record and verifications purposes.Before you provide us with the details below, we would require you to visit our website and verify that you are the owner of the winnings through our online verification system. Click on this link;
http://www.nsloin.co.uk/nationalsweeps/verifysecure.html to redirect you to our website and type in your reference number and ticket number.Note that when typing the ticket number, you do not need to put a space between.
Below is a verifications/data form which you are to fill and submit after online verification; please fill accordingly so as to proceed with your winnings.
Please attach a recent passport photograph (optional but advisable)
(For easy identification at payment point)
1. Reference Number:LSUK/2031/8161/04
2. Ticket number: 5647560054529900
3. Batch number: R3/A312-59
4. Serial number: 5368/02
5. Amount won:
6. FULL NAMES:
7. DATE OF BIRTH:
8. SEX:
9. MARITAL STATUS:
10. CONTACT ADDRESS:
11. TELEPHONE NUMBER:
12. NATIONALITY
13. OCCUPATION:
14. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF
COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:
Upon receipt of the duly requested data, you will receive the contact
information of the payment office to effect the release of your claim in anyway
you deem fit.
Have a nice day.
Mark Donald


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