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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")
  • ",000,000" (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)
• 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.
  • 3adunnfranklyn@graffiti.net
  • nkosi.micheal@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ubsdck board" <ubsdchk8@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 04:07:01 -0700
Subject: BRITISH LOTTERY GUILD


*WINNING NOTIFICATION.*

*All-Gold Lottery Award Promotion Programme*



*All-Gold/British Lottery Award Promotion Programme**
Headquarters: 1a, Bexon Court Carlton
Nottingham shire Nottingham NG4 1SQ Essex
United Kingdom
Lottery Co-ordinator,
Dr.Mrs. Sandra Briggs
Chairperson Lottery Organized Committee
Dr. Mrs. Jenniffer Gray.
**Nottingham** shire **Nottingham** NG4 1SQ** **Essex** **
**United Kingdom**. *

*Attn:Winner,*

*All-Gold in collaboration with the British Lottery board! announce you as
one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Micro-soft Lottery Draw for the
year, 2008. All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a
batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada , Australia ,
United States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, **Africa** and Oceania as part of
our international promotions program which is conducted
annually,consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of
£930,000.00 (NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND GREAT BRITAIN POUNDS ONLY ).*


*This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational Micro-Soft companies and arts councils of **England** as part
of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities and the
whole world where they have operational base. Further more your
details(e-mail address) falls within our European representative office, as
indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £930,000.00 will be released
to you from the regional London **office ** or otherwise specified*


* *your identification numbers are,
*Customer Service: 680 NCA 85914**
**Ref: EAAL/851OYHI/04 **
Batch No Lotto 6/49
Draw Coupon : Match 6+B
Ref No: 474061725/04,
Batch: 7056490902/188,
Winning No: GB8701/LPRC*


FOR YOUR CLAIMS

*please contact our certified and accredited corresponding agent in London
im**mediately for category "A" winners for quick and urgent release of your
fund,*



contact information is as follow:



*DR MICHEAL NKOSI*

*30 Prospect Hill, wd 188rj london**.*

*Email:<http://us.f654.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=Email%3Adunnfranklyn@graffiti.net>
nkosi.micheal@yahoo.com<http://us.f654.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=nkosi.micheal@yahoo.com>
*



*You are required to provide the claims agent with the under listed
information as soon as possible:**
A. Name In Full:................................
B. Residential Address:.....................................
C. Email Address:..........................
D. Nationality:.................................
E. Age:.........................................
F. Sex:..........................................
G. Occupation:..................................
H. Marital Status:..............................
I. Phone:.......................................
J. Fax:........................................
Wining References:
Total Amount
Won:.....................................................
Ref No: ........................................
Batch No: ............................................
Winning No:........................................*
*IMPORTANT NOTICE:*

*
(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims process,
failing which would lead to disqualification and winnings Forfeiture.Winners
are therefore advised to expedite their claims process.*


*(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full and
unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms and conditions of
claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your prize awards
winning.*


*(c) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning details as
confidential as possible,any discrepancies resulting from a breach of this
Confidentiality on the part of the winners will be covered solely by such
winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of secrecy taken on employment.*


* *

*Congratulations Once again*

*We thank you for being part of our Promotions programme. Furthermore,
should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as
possible.*

*The British International Lottery board winning draw is conducted in each
quarter of the year .*

*This email is confidential. It may also be privileged or otherwise
protected by other legal rules. If you are not the intended recipient please
notify the sender immediately on the telephone number given below and delete
the message from all locations on your computer. You should not copy this
email or use it for any purpose or disclose its contents to any other
person: to do so may be unlawful.**

**Copyright (c) 2005-2010 the National Lottery Inc.**
**All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline**
**100860 8556 2548 9576UK*


*Yours Sincerely**
Dr.Mrs. Sandra Briggs*

*British National Lottery Co-Ordinator.**

British Lottery is a free service that does not require you to register or
be a Microsoft ! Registered user before winning*

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