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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.
• 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.
  • +447031924891 (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.
  • uknl_claims2007@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Lottery Co-ordinator < uknl2007_claims@yahoo.co.uk >
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:26:43 +0200
Subject: YOU HAVE WON.......THE UKNL 2007 PROMOTION

NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
12 Bridge Street, Staines Middlesex
TW18 4TP, United Kingdom.
(Customer Services)
OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual drawsof UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY

international Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000
e-mailaddresses of

individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets
were

sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail-address emerged as one of the winners in the category \\"A\\"
You are

therefore been approve to claim the sum of1,350,000.00(One Million Three Hundred And Fifty Pounds Sterling) with the

information below:

Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Mr. Benjamins Clifford
Claims Department . The UKNL Foundation
Email: uknl_claims2007@hotmail.com
Tel: +44-703-192-4891


PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM

(1) FULL NAME
(2) FULL ADDRESS
(3) NATIONALITY.
(4) DATE OF BIRTH
(5) OCCUPATION
(6) TELEPHONE NUMBER
(7) SEX


Submitted Form will be manually verified and processed by the assignedClaims Processing Officer (CPO) the Processing of
your

form will be Completed within the next 24 hours of receiving your LOTTERY CLAIMS APPLICATION FORM You will receive an

update on the status of your Application once completely processed

Congratulations from all our staff for being part of Uk NationalLottery PROGRAM. 2007

Sincerely,

Mrs.Caroline Bryan
( Lottery Co-ordinator )
The UKNL Foundation 2007

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© UK LOTTERY. All rights reserved. Offer valid to winners who areat least 18 years of age. Void where prohibited. No
purchase

necessaryto claim winning prize. You will need to meet all of the steps to redeemas outlined in the Terms & Conditions
before

you can receive yourpromotional prizes.

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