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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:

• 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 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.
  • williamdamborri01@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: United Kingdom National Lottery <unite218@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 00:31:11 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS/WINNING NOTIFICATION.



THE UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS PO BOX 1010 LIVERPOOL L70 1NL CUSTOMERS SERVICE 580 NCA 85914, UNITED KINGDOM. Attention: Sir/Madam AWAD WINNING NOTIFICATION The United Kingdom National Lottery is pleased to announce to you the results of the winners in our online Sweepstakes International program. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564/756/005/451/88 with Serial number: 53/68/02 drew lucky numbers: 10-12-13-17-31-37 (Bonus Ball No.44), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of sum of ££510,000.00 (Five Hundred and TenThousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file number: TU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £4,800,000.00 shared amongst the first Nine (9) international lucky winners in the second category. 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 which are America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, Oceania, and your e-mail address was among the lucky winners short listed in the draw Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Afro booklet representative office in Africa as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £510,000.00 Pounds Sterling would released to you through our African agent. To file for your claim, contact our African Agent immediately by phone or e-mail for processing and remittance of your prize money to you. His contact information is as follows: - Contact Person: Mr. William Damborri Telephone: 27 83 433 7736 E-mail: williamdamborri01@yahoo.co.uk E-mail: damborri@gmail.comOffice: 132-133 Park Hurst Balfour Unite (F) Johannesburg 2001, South Africa. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Note: in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your Reference number: ZZA/FLS/ZR39/825P and Batch Number: 974/742/363/BNN in all correspondence and also contact your representative agent as directed.
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Congratulations once more from members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Mr. Gerald Markson Foreign Operation Manager.

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