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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: fiduaciaryclaimsdepartment01@live.com
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:30:44 -0000
Subject: YOUR EMAIL HAS WON THE UK LOTTERY!!!!!



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BRITISH LOTTERY 11/40
P O Box 1010, 3b Olympic Way,
Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD


FINAL NOTIFICATION
=================

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final
draws of BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programs. The online
cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 250,000 e-mail
addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated
random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After this
automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners
in the category \\\"A\\\" with the following winning information:

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of
£250.000.00 (British Pounds sterling) each from the total payout.

The BRITISH. NATIONAL LOTTERY is approved by the British Gaming Board.To
begin the processing of your prize you are to provide your informations for
clerification.Email:fiduaciaryclaimsdepartment01@live.com

These are your winning codes below:
==============================

REF No: UK/9420X2/79
BATCH No: 200074/05/ZY369
TICKET No: 56475600533188
SERIAL No: S/N-5344/02
LUCKY No: 887 13 865 37 10 83
SECRET PIN CODE: x7pwyz2118

PROVIDE YOUR DETAILS
====================
(1)FULL NAME
(2)FULL ADDRESS
(3)NATIONALITY
(4)DATE OF BIRTH
(5)OCCUPATION
(6)TELEPHONE NUMBER
(7)SEX
(8)TOTAL AMOUNT WON
(9)COUNTRY
(10) MARITAL STATUS

Congratulation!!


SINCERELY
MARY PARKER(MRS)
for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

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