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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)
• 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.
  • +447031955245 (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.
  • agentclaims84@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <agentclaims84@yahoo.it>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:08:14 +0100
Subject: YOUR EMAIL I.D HAVE EMERGED THE 2008 FEBUARY LOTTERY WINNER






REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/9420X2/68
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369
PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
60 Merriman Road Blackheath London SE3 8RZ England.

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

This is to inform you that your email address has been
selected randomly
for a cash prize of

A £4,528(FOUR MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT
THOUSAND , pounds
sterling) held on Saturday 1st febuary 2008 The selection
process
was carried out through random selection in our computerized
email
selection system(ess) from a database
of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which you were
selected.
your e-mail
address emerged as one of two winners in thecategory
\\\"A\\\" with
the following
winning information:
To file for your claim, please contact the processing agent;

Name: MR. Michea terry,
E-mail agentclaims84@yahoo.it
Tel : +447031955245

Claims Requirements:

Full Legal Name:...
Age:.........................
Gender:..................
Occupation:...........
phone:...................
Address:................
Country:...............

Yours Sincerely,
SIR. ALAN CLARKSON
Executive (International Sweepstakes).
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

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