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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims 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.
  • +448715032939 (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.
  • officialpayment_camlot@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3aofficialpayment_camlot@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "peterphillips15 Gazeta.pl" <peterphillips15@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:09:25 +0200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION


The Camelot Group,
Operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD

WINNING NOTIFICATION
The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of
the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain
held on the of 20th June. 2008. 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-A0802742008. This is from total
prize money of GBP £4,459,670.00shared among the
FIVE (5) international winners in this category.All participants for the
online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web through computer
balloting system drawn from over 100,000 names database, union associations
and corporate bodies that are listed online.This promotion is this year's
United Kingdom National Lottery Weekly bonus.The Camelot Group,operators of
the United Kingdom National Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board
and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators
(IAGR).All winning must be claimed not later than 7 working days from this
notification. After this time 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.Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until
your claims has been
processed and your money remitted to you.This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
To begin your claim, please contact yourn Claims Agent:
Mr Peter Phillips.
PROCESSING DEPARTMENT
26 Stanhope Road
Kent CT14 6AD London
United Kingdom
To File For Your Claim, Please CLICK THE EMAIL YOU SEE BELOW
EMAIL:officialpayment_camlot@yahoo.co.uk<EMAIL%3Aofficialpayment_camlot@yahoo.co.uk>
Tel:+44 8715032939
He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and remittance
of your prize money.Note below your winning details:Ticket
No:22-1356-4096-988, Serial no: A069-07,Lucky No: 12-13-21-26-32-39
Bonus-17,File REF No.: UKL/74-A0802742008,BATCH No.:
2008UKL-01
***IMPORTANT*** FILL OUT THIS WINNERS
KINDLY FILL THE VERIFICATION FORM
FULLNAMES:__________
Sex:________________
ADDRESS:____________
City________________
State_______________
Postcode____________
Country_____________
Tel_________________
Nationality_________
occupation__________
choose your claims option. (1)Courier(2)Bank Transfer
Congratulations again from all our staff.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Dianne Thompson
Online Coordinator,CAMELOT GROUP, Operator of The National Lottery.

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