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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)
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Watson_Johnson.?=" <in.fo10@aliceadsl.fr>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:12:17 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Urgent_Reply.?=


UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
60 Merriman Road,
Blackheath, London SE3 8RZ,
England.
BONUS LOTTERY PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION.

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of
£750,000.00 GBP (seven hundred and fifty thousand, pounds sterling)
held today, Sunday, the 29th of September 2008. The selection
process was carried out through random selection in our computerized
email selection system (ess) from a database of over 250,000 email
addresses drawn from which you were selected. your e-mail address
emerged as one of two winners in the category \\\A\\\ with the
following winning information:
Ref Number: UK/9420X2/68
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369
To file for your claim, please contact the processing agent;
Eric Grant(Claims Officer)
Email:claimsdept_uk_lott1@live.com
Claims Requirements:
Full Legal Name:.................................
Age:.....................................
Occupation:........................
Annual Income...............................
Phone:...............................
Address:............................
Country:............................
Congratulations once again from me and all staff of the UK Lottery
Board.
Regards,
Watson Johnson.
Online coordinator for THE UK LOTTERY.


---------------------- ALICE N°1 de la RELATION CLIENT 2008*--------------------
Découvrez vite l'offre exclusive ALICE BOX! En cliquant ici http://abonnement.aliceadsl.fr Offre soumise à conditions.*Source : TNS SOFRES / BEARING POINT. Secteur Fournisseur d.Accès Internet

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