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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:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "deadline" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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: Hazel Zerola <lottolnd@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:26:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Procedure to Claim your Winning





UK-LOTTO HEADQUARTERS:
national lottery commission
The Marina Offices
St Peters Yacht Basin
Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 1HX England

ATTN : NATIONAL LOTTERY WINNER
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
File Number KTU/902311832012/06

DEAR WINNER,

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SELECTION AS ONE OF THE LUCKY WINNERS OF THE PROMOTIONAL LOTTERY BY INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY GREAT BRITAIN. TO BEGIN THE PROCESSING OF YOUR WINNINGS, PLEASE FILL THE VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM AND RETURN TO THE PAYING BANK THROUGH THIS CONTACT INFORMATION BELOW:

The Royal Bank of Scotland
Lumbry Park,
Selborne Road,
Alton, Hampshire,
GU34 3HF United Kingdom
Attention: Mr. Robert St John
Email: .newrich@rbscotlanduk.org


VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM

1.FULL NAMES:____________________________
2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________

3.OCCUPATION:_______________________
4.CHOOSE MODE OF PAYMENT: by BANK DRAFT.
5. TELEPHONE NUMBER:____________________
6. (A)LUCKY NUMBERS: 23 17 22 40 42_________________
( B). DRAW NUMBER:__#:1137__________________

7. AMOUNT WON:___£2,543,170.00 (Two Million Five Hundred And Forty Three Thousand One Hundred And seventy Pounds Sterlings)
8. STATE:__________________________________
9. COUNTRY:______________________________





RULES AND CONDITIONS GUIDING THE NATIONAL LOTTERY GREAT BRITAIN:

General

A player online has no purchase commitment or monetary expenditure in order to be chosen in the NATIONAL LOTTERYGREAT BRITAIN DRAWS. The selection process is done by computer balloting chosen at random from names across the globe. All winnings are insured to its original value and as such any expenses cannot be deducted from it. Only claims on prizes during the prizes specified duration would be considered valid.Prize amounts available to be won may be changed in amount at the jurisdiction of the owners of NATIONAL LOTTERY GB.The owner of NATIONAL LOTTERY reserve the right to immediately cancel or suspend outstanding winnings should you exceed the deadline date,viruses,bugs, human intervention or other causes beyond its control, corrupt or affect the administration, security,fairness or proper conduct of the game. No electronic devices or software programs may be used to gain false profits and winnings from NATIONAL LOTTERY GREAT BRITAIN. Any fraudulent attempts to claim
prizes or to circumvent the rules of this game will subject such individual to prosecution and relative prizes will not be issued. The owners of NATIONAL LOTTERY are not responsible for any technical errors that create a situation whereby an erroneous prize is gained. The NATIONAL LOTTERY Server generates the Lottery's winning email addresses and winning numbers. All federal,state, provincial,local and other taxes and tariffs of any kind are the responsibility of thewinning party. All winnings are subject to final approval from the apex body in games rules and regulations, GREAT BRITAIN GAMING CONTROL BOARD (GB.G.C.B.).

Eligibility of Players:

This particular lottery is still in its promotional stage as such winners are chosen by computer balloting at random, please winners should note that subsequent draws would not be free. Players must have legal maturity age as applied within their country of residence. The winning is void where prohibited by law of your country. The owners, employees, and their immediate families, or persons living in the same household as such employees, of NATIONAL LOTTERY GB, and its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, are not eligible to participate to any winning prizes.

Conduct of Players:

The owners of NATIONAL LOTTERY GREAT BRITAIN reserves the right, in its own sole discretion, to disqualify any individual or winning player that acts in the following manner: (1) Falsifying or technically abusing the entry process,"spamming" or falsifying in acquiring identification be it in form of passports or driver's license, or any part of the operation of the game and Web Site (2) Being in violation of the official rules (3) Acting with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person employed by Great Britain Development Finance Company.
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Claiming Prizes:

In the case of players claiming their prizes.The winners fill and return the attached "verification form" which they must complete with their name, telephone number,current mailing address and e-mail and return to Royal Bank Scotland via their email address before the deadline date. Information provided on the form must be legally valid in order to claim a prize. Prizes won by contestants together with any bonus will be honored in the form of a certified check or by wire transfer and paid within forty-eight hours (48) from the date of meeting the complete requirements from our agents.

Limitations and Liability of NATIONAL LOTTERY GREAT BRITAIN:

The owners of NATIONAL LOTTERY GREAT BRITAIN are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by web site users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with claiming your prize. We are also not legally or financially responsible for any technical or human error that may occur in the course of claiming your prize.NATIONAL LOTTERY GB and its employees assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alteration ofd ata. NATIONAL LOTTERY GREAT BRITAIN and its employees are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network lines, computer online systems, servers or providers,computer equipment, software, failure of e-mail, or players on account of technical problems with traffic congestion on the Internet, including injury or damage to participants, or to
any other person's computer, related to or resulting from participating or receiving materials in this contest. If, for any reason, the contest is not capable of operating as planned, including infection by computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of playing the game NATIONAL LOTTERY GB , do not assume any responsibility in this respect . Nor is it responsible for any corruption and anything that affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the game NATIONAL LOTTERY GB . It also reserves the right, at its sole discretion and at any time to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the winnings if players are acting in a disruptive manner,or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

Player Information:
Except as required by law, the owners of NATIONAL LOTTERY GB and our agents Great Britain Development Finance Company will not share winning information with any third parties without the permission of such winners. Acceptance by a player of any prize constitutes permission, where permitted by law, to use the winner's name,photograph or video, recorded telephone calls and/or likeness without compensation.Statements made by winners may be used as promotional material in connection with NATIONAL LOTTERY GREAT BRITAIN without any further financial or other forms of compensation.

Agreement to be Bound :

By being chosen as a winner in the NATIONAL LOTTERY GREAT BRITAIN any winner agrees to abide by all the rules as stipulated:(1) To be bound by all of these rules and the decisions of the owners.(2)Winners, or their legal representative, successors,heirs and assigns, release NATIONAL LOTTERY GREAT BRITAIN successors,subsidiaries and assigns from any and all liability associated with this contest.


SIR Hazel Zerola.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program





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