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

Fraud email example:

From: "United Kingdom National Lottery" <rramos@netmadeira.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:00:45 GMT
Subject: YOUR EMAIL HAS EMERGED AS WINNER!!



The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England
(Customer Services)
Ref: WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw of the UK
NATIONALLOTTERY,onlineSweepstakes International program held
on 11th Of June 2008 It is yet to be unclaimed and you are
getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this. Youre-mail
address attached to the lucky
numbers: 4,6,11, 17,31, 41 And (Bonus Ball 44), which
subsequently won you thelottery in the 2nd category i.e
JACKPOT. You have therefore been approved to claim a
totalsum of £2,214,747(Two Million Two Hundred
And fourteen Thousand Seven Hundred And forty Seven
Pounds Sterlings) incashcredited to file number
KTU/902311832012/06 and DrawNumber:Draw1219

As the soul beneficiary the prize has been insured with a
Hard Cover INSURANCE POLICY called the IRREVOCABLE GUARANTY
BOUND, that makes theprize NON-DEDUCTABLE.. This is part of
the Country's Programme to
fund for the Olympic Games in 2012 The £1.5bn Olympic
lottery puzzle
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4719851.stm).The Olympic
fund-raising games will include a TV draw The National
Lottery mayhave
seemed a relatively simple way of helping pay for the
Olympics.The Lottery must raise £1.5bn over the next
seven years to pay its share of the public money going into
the Olympics. A further £650m will be raised
from council tax in London and another £250m from the
London Development Agency, while similar sums will be
raised from ticket sales,marketing,sponsorship and the
sale of television rights.You are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till
your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manneryou deem fit to claim your prize. This is
part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.Pleasebewarned. To file
for your claim, please contact our AdministrationAssistant:
NAME: Jefferson Kay
Administration Assistant
Humber & Wolds Council
Official Email:assistantjefferson@hotmail.com
Endeavour to email him your full names, File and
drawnumbers,emailaddress,telephone and fax numbers
immediately. Congratulations from me and members of staff of
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY®.
Yours faithfully,
Jordan Bradwell
Online Coordinator
For UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program © Copyright 2007 ®.
_____________________________________________________
® Do not reply this E-mail, contact our Administration
Assistant with
the above email®.

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