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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "transfer of your funds" (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)
  • ",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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +447045719658 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447075209593 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Berwick County Bank Plc <info@bc-online-bank.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 00:42:06 +0000
Subject: You Are Wellcome To Berwick County Plc *** Activation Of An Online
Premuim Account***






Head OfficeBerwick County Towers, Albert Berwick Courts, Upon Tweed,London BW8 2PXTel :+447045719658Fax: +44 7075209593E-mail : info@bc-online-bank.com




You are welcome to BERWICK COUNTY BANK PLC. The payment Bank for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO. We are pleased to be at your service. We are Regulated and Stipulated by the Financial Service Authority (FSA), the financial institutions that govern all financial activities in the United Kingdom.


In receipt to the transferring of your funds worth the sum of 1,000,000.00 GBP (This funds was said to be a winning funds drawn by the Uk National Lottery UK.) so congratulatYou Are Wellcome To Berwick County Plc *** Activation Of An Online Premuim Account***ions. As per your question, The funds is expected to be transferred to your country, you cannot keep the funds in our Bank as a current account because you contacted us for the transferring of your funds, so the funds is said to be a transferring funds. In every successful transfer of funds especially in this regards, it is an essentiality that you activate a premium account with the bank that can accommodate and transfer such an amount of money. Transferring the Sum of 1,000,000.00 GBP here in the United Kingdom need utmost care and confidentiality at course of transferring the funds. So you need to be guarded with policy and rules regarding the transfer. By so doing, you are expected to act in accordance to the policy here.



So, to commence with the transferring of your funds, you are expected to activate a Premium account for the transfer. The cost of activating a Premium account is £500 GBP ( Five Hundred Great Britain Pounds Sterling ) which will be added to your account balance.

After the activation of an account, an account will be activated and the logins forwarded to you which enables you login and have access into your account online via our website and you can carry on with the transfer of your funds to any designated account number you deem fit.




So if you are ready to make the payment for the cost of transferring your funds, you are expected to notify this office for the payment details.

Note:The charges cannot be Deducted from your winnings.This is in accordance with section 13(1)(n) of the National Gambling Act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3RD July 1996 by the constitutional assembly.This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds and win and win Situations.


Berwick County Bank United Kingdom, is committed to rendering qualitative services to you, Also you are advice to send us a scanned copy of your driver's license or your international passport for final verification.
Your urgent reply will be most welcome.Treat with dispatch and reply to our official email address above.

We look forward to serving you better


Best Regards,Mr. Robert Brown
Customer Care Service
For: Berwick County Bank Plc The Approved Bank for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY. Copyright © 1983 - 2006 Berwick County Bank Plc. All rights reserved.
**Berwick County Bank Plc United Kingdom, Registered in United Kingdom Registered Office: Berwick County Towers, Albert Berwick Courts, Upon Tweed,LondonBW8 2PXRegulated by the Financial Services Authority.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Confidentiality Note:

The information contained in this message is confidential and/or privileged. This message is intended to be read only by the person named above.The unauthorized use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, (or responsible for delivery of the message to the addressee), please notify the originator by return message and destroy the original message.

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