419 scam: "National Lottery Award"<britishdraw@london.com> Email Winner 2010

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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)
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million british pounds" (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)
- "campbell-robert@live.co.uk" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
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: "National Lottery Award" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <robert.officemail@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 05:36:47 -0800
Subject: Email Winner 2010 - Congratulation!

The National Lottery
P. O. Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074-05-BLUK

W I N N I N G N O T I F I C A T I O N

To Email Recipient, We happily announce to you the draw (#516) of the THUNDERBALL WINNING under the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on Friday, 29th of October, 2010. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: BLUK56475600HR09 with serial number 5368-02 drew the lucky numbers: 14, 2, 17, 9, 65, 30, 33 which subsequently won you the lottery of the Jackpot Prize. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of Five Million British Pounds (£5,000, 000.00) in cash credited to file BLUK/9023118308/03. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 500,000 Unions, Associations, and Corporate Bodies that are listed on-line. This promotion takes place Yearly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European Booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your prize will be released to you by any of our Payment Offices in London. Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
To file for your claim, please contact our Claims Representative Agent:

Contact person: Mr. Robert Campbell
Address: Block 2, Lottery House, LIVERPOOL, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM.
Contact Email: campbell-robert@live.co.uk

Provide him with the information below:
1. NAME:
2. ADDRESS:
3. TELEPHONE NUMBER:
4. DRAW NUMBER AS ABOVE: 516
5. AGE:
6. SEX:
7. NATIONALITY:
8. COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:

Note that this way your Winnings Certificate and all other relevant documents/paperwork can be prepared for you. You would be required to show an instrument of identification when cashing your funds. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

Goodluck from the organizers and staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Linda Lewis
(Head of Publicity)

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