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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447031931675 (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.
  • cgprocessingdepartment@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: CAMELOT GROUPS <cgprocessingdepartment@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:42:02 +0200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION


The Camelot Groups
Operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD.

WINNING NOTIFICATION.
The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the
results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by
Great Britain held on the of 29th, September 2007. Your mail account
have been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and
ninety-one thousand, nine hundred and thirty-four Great Britain pounds
(£891,934.00 pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file REF
NO.REF:UKL/74-A0802742007. This is from total prize money of GBP
£4,459,670.00shared among the FIVE (5) international winners in this
category.All participants for the online version were selected randomly
from World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn from
over 100,000 names database, union associations and corporate bodies
that
are listed online.This promotion is this year's United Kingdom National
Lottery Weekly bonus. The Camelot Group, operators of the United
Kingdom
National Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also
Licensed
by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).

All winning must be claimed not later than 14 working days from this
notification. After this time all unclaimed funds will be returned to
European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your
reference number in all correspondence.Be advice to keep your winning
information confidential until your claims has been processed and our
money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.To begin your
claim, please contact your Claims Agent:

Mr. Pedro Melvin.
PROCESSING DEPARTMENT
26 Stanhope Road
Kent CT14 6AD London
United Kingdom
Email: cgprocessingdepartment@hotmail.com
Tel: +447031931675
Tel: +447031916681
He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and
remittance
of your prize money.
Note below your winning details:Ticket Nº: 22-1356-4096-988, Serial
Nº:
A069-07
Lucky Nº: 12-13-21-26-32-39 Bonus-17, File REF Nº.:
UKL/74-A0802742007
BATCH Nº.: 2007UKL-01

KINDLY FILL THE VERIFICATION FORM
FULLNAMES:______
Sex:____________
ADDRESS:________
City____________
State___________
Postcode________
Country_________
Tel_____________
Nationality_____
Occupation______

Sincerely,
Mrs. Dianne Thompson
Online Coordinator,
CAMELOT GROUPS
Operator of The National Lottery.

Anti-fraud resources:

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