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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 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)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • hsbcfinance_office@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mathew mark <moristerry@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: hsbcfinance_office@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:03:58 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CONGRATULATION


THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O BOX 1010
LIVERPOOL, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24

National U.K Lottery wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail
address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain Your email
account have been picked as a winner of £550,000 (Five hundred and fifty
thousand pounds sterling) This results is now released your email
address attached to Draw 1034 of December 2007, participants were selected
through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from
company and individual email addresses users.
Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your
claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This
ispartofoursecurity protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program, For the release of your winning. All winning must be claimed
not late than One Week of Acknowledgment.
After this date 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. You
are therefore advised to give the following information's to your Claims
Department:
Mr Larry Combs
Official Email:hsbcfinance_office@yahoo.co.uk
Foreign Services Manager,
Payment and Release order Department,
HSBC FINANCE HOUSE
7 Cranston Way, Forest Hill,23SE 2HA London,UNITED KINGDOM.
1. FULL NAMES:
2.NATIONALITY:
3.AGE:
4.SEX:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.CONTACT ADDRESS:
7.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
8.OCCUPATION:
9.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS:
10.TOTAL AMOUNT WON:

Endeavour to email him your full names,winning numbers,email/billing
address,telephone and fax
numbers immediately.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please send your reply via
mail: hsbcfinance_office@yahoo.co.uk
Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
UK Lottery Board.



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