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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:
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "u.k " (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.
  • +447031835054 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448709747675 (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.
  • overseasubscribers.agents@yahoo.co.uk
  • overseasaagents@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK. NATIONAL LOTTERY" <uklottukna@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:44:56 +0100
Subject: YOUR LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION



UKONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK. GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!! UKONLINE? INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration Z720633X). National Lottery P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services) WINNINGNOTIFICATION Re f: LSUK/2031/8161/05 Batch: R3/A312-59a CATEGORY. 2nd category Dear Winner! We happily announce to you the by-annual online draw of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International Program held on Friday 13th June 2008,

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9564 75604545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 07/17/29/33/42/45/ & bonus 24. This subsequently won you one of the lucky dip prizes. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £980,840 (Nine Hundred and Eighty Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Great British Pounds) in cash credited to file LSUK/2031/8161/05. This is from a total cash prize of £47,305,800 (Forty Seven Million Three Hundred and Five Thousand Eight Hundred Great British Pounds), shared amongst the Twenty (20) lucky winners in this category.

The Free Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group, and Toshiba, Dell computers, Mackintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies. The free lotto internet draw is held thrice in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Dollars are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide (LOTTO PRIZE BREAKDOWN) Draw date: Friday 25th April 2008, Your Prize Money £980,840.00 NUMBER OF MATCHES. No OF WINNERS. £s PER WINNER. TOTAL Match 6 1 £5,254,612 £5,254,612 Match 5 plus bonus 20 £980,840 £19,616,800 Match 5 576 £11,754 £6,770,304 Match 4 33686 £465 £15,663,990 Match 3 604272 £10 £6,042,706 Totals 638555 £47,305,706 All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, companies and corporate bodies that are listed online. Our corresponding agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!!!!!!.To file for your claim, please contact our corresponding agent immediately you read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund, contacts information is as follow: - Name: Mr. Richard Hanson. Overseas Subscribers Agents 2 North Park Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 5PATEL: +44 703 183 5054FAX: +44 870 974 7675Email:overseasubscribers.agents@yahoo.co.uk or
Email:overseasaagents@yahoo.co.uk
Please be informed that all winning must be claimed on or before 30th July 2008. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with our designated agents. Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program that has successfully won this competition. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery Program. Once again congratulations from the entire staff of the U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY. Ms.Anne Popkin.Online coordinator for U.k National Lottery Johnson Cole. Controller.

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