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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:
  • "overseas subscribers agents" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim 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.
  • +447031817417 (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.
  • andersonsmith30@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: lottery company <lotterycompany_93@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:04:20 +0200
Subject: UK ONLINE NOTIFICATION




UK ONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK.
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!

UK ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY

IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION:

(Registration Z720633X).


National Lottery

P O Box 1010

Liverpool, L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)



WINNING NOTIFICATION


Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/05

Batch: R3/A312-59a

CATEGORY. 2nd category


WINNING NOTIFICATIONThe United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that theresults of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program byGreat Britain held on the of 4th December 2007. Your mail account have been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and ninty-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-A0802742006. This is from total prize money of GBP 4,459,670.00 shared among the FIVE (5) international winners in this category.All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web through our computer balloting system drawn from over 100,000 names database, union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion is last year\'s United Kingdom National LotteryNew Year bonanza. Remember, all prize money must be claimed within 30 days of this notification. After this time all unclaimed funds will be returned to United Kingdom 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 yourclaims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is partof our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuseof this program.Contact details below

Please call your claim agent if your mail was not responded to within 24 hours: contact information is as follow: -

Name : Dr.Anderson Smith

Overseas Subscribers Agents

ADDRESS: 2-3 avenue, highlands

North,Liverpool 85609.

Tel: + 44- 703-181-7417

Email: andersonsmith30@gmail.com


Email :andersonsmith_30@yahoo.co.ukPLEASE SEND A COPY OF YOUR CONTACT INFORMATIONS TO BOTH EMAILS PROVIDED BELOW:





1, Full Names:

2, Date of birth:

3, Present Contact Address:

4, Country Of Residence:

5, Tel/Fax:

6, Your Winning serial and ref. no:

7, Winning Email address:

8, Occupation

9, Sex:

10 Total amount won: £891,934.00 ONLY

11, Mode Of Payment

Bank account number:

Bank Swift Code: & Bank Routing & Branch Code:

Bank Transfer {T/T}



The Free Lottery Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,the Intel Group, Toshiba,Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.

Congratulations, once more from the entire management and staff of UK ONLINE NATIONAL LOTTERY to all our lucky winners . Mrs. Julia White.

Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sweepstakes International Program


NATIONAL LOTTERY


Johnson Cole,

Controller

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