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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)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447045724469 (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.
  • infoclaims_noticedept2007@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <infoclaims_noticedept2007@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:24:17 +0100 (BST)
Subject: UPDATE



UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

Good day to you, i got your mail and in respond to it i will like to inform you that the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY is genue and we have hard winnings all over the world. Your e-mail was among the lucky winning emails that we selected randomly by online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of three winners in the category \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"A\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" with the following winning information: You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 1,000,000 (One million pounds sterling).

You said some time ago you have had transferred some payments to a friend who assured you of an offer very closely that or the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY. I will like to state here that i do not know any thing about that, You have been ask to contact the ELITE COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY to the delivery of your winnings i hope you have done that.

You also said that you tryed calling me but the number was wrong, i will also like to let you know that, thats my number number it works every day.

With Regards,
Mrs JOHN CARRICK,
Telephone:{+44} +44 704 5724 469
Email: infoclaims_noticedept2007@yahoo.co.uk


ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.





THANKS:
MANAGEMENT, UK NATIONAL LOTTERY INC.

Past winners round the world with full of excitment







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