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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "you are advice to " (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!

Fraud email example:

From: The Big Lottery Fund UK <lenz_brown@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: clive_booth_bigfundrelease@onlive7.com
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:56:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Update...



The Big Lottery Fund UK
1 Plough Place
London,EC4A 1DE
United Kingdom.
BLF REF: BIG/YTHY3889/09
BLF Batch: 46/09369/BIG
BLF Winning number:BIG/YT6782/09
 
Website:www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
 
FROM: THE PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS DEPT.
 
Dear Lucky Winner

We are Pleased to inform you that you have won a prize money of
£311,759.00 (Three Hundred and Eleven Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty
Nine Great Britian Pounds Sterlings) for the Year 2009 Big Lottery Fund (BIG).
which is organized by Big Lottery Fund.Big Lottery Fund collects all the email addresses
of the people that are active online,among the millions that subscribed to the
Internet Services, we only select five people every Year as our winners in different
countries via our electronic balloting System without the winner applying.
 
Every year BIG gives out millions of pounds from the National Lottery to good causes.
Our money goes to community groups and to projects that improve health,
education and the environment via our winners online from the BIG LOTTERY FUND UK.
 
These are your winning numbers:

BLF REF: BIG/YTHY3889/09
BLF Batch: 46/09369/BIG
BLF Winning number:BIG/YT6782/09
To File for your claim, please contact our payment/release order
officer below.
***************************************************************
Name:Mr. Clive Booth
E-mail:clive_booth_bigfundrelease@onlive7.com
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order Department,
***************************************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:

1.FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
9.AMOUNT WON:
10. STATE:
11. COUNTRY:
12. NEXT OF KIN:
13. ZIP CODE:
14: NATIONALITY:
15). I____________________________ hereby declare that the above

information is true and binding on me. If at any time it is discovered
that I have given false information, I will forfeit my rights to my
winnings.
 
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of the THE BIG
LOTTERY FUND.
 
BIG LOTTERY FUND (BIG)The Lottery relief helps rebuild lives across the world.
Yours faithfully,
Online coordinator
(Sweepstakes International Program).

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