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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:

• 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)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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.
  • +447045772404 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "patrick james" <patrickjames@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: fundrelease_department@live.fr
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:08:15 +0200
Subject: UK Lottery Headquarters:


UK Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD, CROYDON.LONDON
Ref: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch: 12/25/0304

WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!!
FINAL NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (#570) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on January 26th
2008.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 02 10 11 29 31 49, which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.ematch 5 plus
bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£1,850,000.00 (One Million Eight hundred & Fifty Thousand Pounds
sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/90231108/03.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web ! ! sites through co! mputer draw system and extracted
from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are
listed online. This promotion takes place weekly until the end of the
year. (31/12/2007)

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon. (5647560054) In view of this, your £1,850,000.00 would be
released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

please you are advised to contact the agent with your winning numbers,
this is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To begin the processing of your prize you are to
contact our fiduciary claims department for more infomation as regards
procedures to claim your prize.

REF NO: UK 200-26937
BATCH NO: 2007MJL-01

With The Following Details:

YOUR DETAILS:
1.FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
10.COUNTRY:

You are to contact the Claims Consultant:
Name:Mr.Daniel West:
Tel:+44 704 577 2404
Email:fundrelease_department@live.fr<Email%3Afundrelease_department@live.fr>

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Patrick James
Winner Notice
U.K ONLINE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL

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