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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)
• 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.
  • +447045704595 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: The National Lottery <frank_bell013@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <claimsagentdrwellpaulson01@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:14:44 -0400
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!



The National LotteryP O Box 1010Liverpool, L70 1NLUNITED KINGDOM(Customer Services)Ref: UK/9420X/68Batch: 074/05/ZY369 FINAL NOTIFICATIONWe are pleased to inform you today that the Wednesday 19th September 2007about the result of the Winner of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO
PROGRAMME, lucky numbers: (2) (5) (6) (13) (25) (47) ( 45 bonus no.),Visit the Online Website for your Result http://www.lottery.co.uk/res/All participants for the online version were selected randomly fromWorld Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted fromover 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listedonline. This promotion takes place weeklyYou have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,500,000(One Million five hundred pounds sterling) in cash credited to fileKTU/9023118308/03. To file for your claim, please contact our claimsagent;Dr Well Paul son,Phone:+447045704595Email: claimsagentdrwellpaulson01@yahoo.co.ukProvide he with the informations below:1.Full Name:2.Full Address:3.Marital Status:4.Occupation:5.Age:6.Sex:7.Nationality:8.Country Of Residence:9.Telephone Number:10. mode of claims... DELIVERY BY COURIERGood luck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.Yours faithfully,Richard K. LloydOnline coordinator for UK NATIONALLOTTERY, Sweepstakes International Program.
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