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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:
  • "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",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)
  • "00,000.00" (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 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.
  • +447024086287 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448712474939 (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.
  • dellukdocumentationcenter@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: "maryam" <dellukdocumentationcenter@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:43:26 +0800 (MYT)
Subject: AWARD NOTIFICATION


Dell UK
Dell House
Cain Road
Bracknell, RG12 1LF
United Kingdom

AWARD NOTIFICATION
================

Dear Lucky Winner,

Thank you for participating in the Dell UK, 2008 lottery program. The Dell UK, 2008 lottery program selection has been performed finally at the Dell UK Corporate headquarters in the United Kingdom. The Dell UK lottery program is a private lottery promotion registered and organized in accordance with the British Gaming Board (B.G.B.), the Lottery Control Commission, United Kingdom (L.C.C.) and the World Lottery Regulation Act (W.L.R.A.).

Dell UK was set-up initially to design and manufacture desktop computers and became established in the United Kingdom around 1987. Dell is now the number one (1) PC and commercial laptop supplier in the UK and is renowned for producing high quality state-of-the-art hardware hence this International Lottery Promotional Program.

It is on this note that the Dell UK, 2008 Lottery Organizing Committee (L.O.C.) is pleased to officially notify you of the status of your email address application. An official notification of winning is hereby issued to you as your email promotional ticket number; Dell -13-02-96-09, with serial number; Dell /04/2008, and ref no; Dell /01/2008 in batch D /3233 randomly drew for the lucky numbers 000-000-1984 which selected your email address as a winner of our International Lottery Program. You have therefore consequently won the Dell UK, 2008 lottery promo in our first batch lottery promotion of the year.

To this extent, we have officially approved a sum payout of GBP 1,000,000.00 POUNDS only to you as our lottery winner. This amount is from the total prize cash of GBP 5,000,000.00 POUNDS randomly distributed among our five (5) International winners selected by our Lottery Random System Selection (L.R.S.S.). All participants were selected via a computer ballot system drawn from a 100,000 email addresses issued from Australia, New Zealand, United States of America, Middle-East, Europe, North-America and Asia, as part of our International Promotional Program.

CONGRATULATIONS
==============

The Dell UK, 2008 lottery program's documentation center will immediately commence the processing and documentation of your prize claims as soon as you have contacted them. To begin the processing and documentation of your prize claims, you are to contact the Dell UK, 2008 lottery program's documentation center immediately as stated below;

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Contact Person: Mr. Marsh D. Patrick
Documentation Officer
Dell United Kingdom Lottery Documentation Center
EmailAddress:dellukdocumentationcenter@hotmail.com
Phone Number: +44-702-4086-287
FaxNumber: +44-871-2474-939
================================================================

Please, remember to contact them by please providing them with the compulsory underlisted informations below as soon as possible;
1. Names in full
2. Address
3. Nationality
4. Sex
5. Occupation / Annual Income
6. Phone and/or Fax
7: Ticket Number; Dell -13-02-96-09
8: Serial Number; Dell /04/2008
9: Reference Number; Dell /01/2008 and
10: Secret Pin Code; #123#Dell UK# ****

You are adviced to contact the above correspondence using their e-mailing address not later than twenty-one (21) working days from this email notification. For security reasons, our lucky winners are also advised to keep their winning details from the public to avoid fraudulent acts / claim by unscrupulous members of the public.

Congratulations once again, from my humble self and all members of the Dell UK, 2008 Lottery Organizing Committee (L.O.C.).

Sincerly Your's,
Engr. C. Kestenholz
Chairman
Dell UK, 2008 Lottery Organizing Committee (L.O.C.)
For and on behalf of the Dell United Kingdom.

AWARD NOTIFICATION

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