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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:
  • "20 craven park, harlesden" (address often used in fake lottery scams)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "part of our security protocols" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "you are advice to " (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 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.
  • +447031921754 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448709742585 (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.
  • mscorporationuk@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: evis abbas <evis_abbas27@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mscorporationuk@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:54:27 +0200
Subject: CONTACT DR. BLUE MILTON FOR URGENT WINNING PRIZE




Microsoft Award Team20 Craven Park, Harlesden London NW10 United KingdomRef: BTD/968/05Batch: 409978E

Dear Winner,

CONGRATULATION! CONGRATULATION!! CONGRATULATION!!!


We write to inform you that Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully organized a Sweepstakes marking the year 2007 anniversary we rolled out over GBP £24,000 000 00 for our end of year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage. The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalized email addresses to ticket numbers. If you ignore this, you will regret it later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an E-Mail Beta Base Test.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to Ticket Number: ALO79-55-279-18 with Serial Number: ALOTD/9/14/06/07 and drew the Lucky Number: 885-32-48-40(111) which subsequently won you Seven Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterling (£725, 000.00) as one of the 12 winners in this draw. The draws registered as draw number NINE was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom on the 15th of January 2008. These Draws are commemorative and as such special. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of Seven Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterling (£725, 000.00) in cash, which is the winning payout in Second category winners. This is from the total prize money of £GBP £6,000 000 00 (Six million Great Britain Pounds Sterling) shared among the Twelve Winners in the Second category.
Your winnings should be claimed from our paying agent in London as we have notified them. Due to the mix-up that may arise from emails of winners and numbers we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocols to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year (2007) high stakes £GBP £24,000 000 00 (Twenty-Four million Great Britain Pounds Sterling). To begin your claim, you are advice to contact immediately, our Claims Agent who also will be you claim agent:

DELIVERY AGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION:

NAME OF COURIER FIRM: FRONTIERS DELIVERY SERVICESOFFICE ADDRESS: 60 Great Ormond Street London,WC1N 3HR United- Kingdom.

Contact Person: Dr. Blue Milton (Claims Agent)
Phone: +44 703 192 1754, +44 703 1921881, +44 703 192 2413
Fax: +44 870 974 2585, +44 870 9742586, +44 870 974 2587
Email: mscorporationuk@yahoo.co.uk


For due processing and remittance of your prize money, remember you must contact your claim manager not later than two weeks. Otherwise all funds will be returned as unclaimed. And, should there be any change in your email address, do inform your claims manager as soon as possible. **NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every of your correspondences with your claims agent. **

1) Full name:………………………………………………………….…….…………………….
2) Tel:…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
3) Fax:…………………………………………………………..…………………………………….
4) Address:……………………………………………………..…………….……………………
5) Ticket Numbers:……………………………………………………….……………………..
6) Serial Number:……………………………………………………………………………………..…………………….
7) Lucky Numbers: (as indicated in this winning Notification)
8) Phone numbers:…………………………………………….............……..…………………
9) Amount won:……………………………………………………………………………………….………………
10) Sex…………………………………………………………………….…………………………
11) Age………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
12) Occupation………………………………………………….......……….……………………

Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates. We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune in this season.
Note: You have two weeks only from the date of this publication to claim your prize or you may forfeit your winnings. In compliance with the sponsoring bodies’, you are to make a remittance of a part of your won fund, not lower than 10-percent, after receiving your allocation to a charity organization.

Thank you for being part of our commemorative end of year Anniversary Draws.
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT BE ATTENDED TO, KINDLY CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY AGENT DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER DIRECTIONS
Mrs. Evis Abbas Microsoft Promotion Team Vice President
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