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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)
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: brender william <brender_willys07@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 03:57:48 +0100 (BST)
Subject: RE:RE:Re:Official Email : Winners Of Draw (#683)


The National Lottery,
35 North Fredrick
Street London.
WD1 12T.
United Kingdom
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Dear Luther Goldschitz,

In regards to your mail i want you to know that there have been scan mails sent to alot of people on the internet recently i mean similar mails that you received from the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD,i wish to inform you that you are a lucky person and that your email address was All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.

Also note that you are to keep your winning numbers to yourself and you do not need EU taxes to claim your winnings,plaese i need you to fill out the claims verification form for your winnings to be processed.

NOTE:You will pay for the delivery of your winnings to your location and thats all you need to do i request you get to me with the with the claims verification.

1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11.Email Address:

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Richard.K Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
© Copyright 1994-2005 The UK National Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline



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