419 scam: "NATIONAL LOTTO"<natlot.99@hotmail.co.uk> Congratulations..2011..

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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.
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 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.
- nlotto63@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "NATIONAL LOTTO" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <natlot.90@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:35:07 -0000
Subject: Congratulations..2011..

CONGRATULATIONS,

Congratulations on being one of our winners Your Email has just been chosen as our winner in the online version of the telephonic O2 UK limited, United Kingdom lottery organized by The Government For The Festive Season. Phone numbers and emails were extracted from over 170, 287 companies and 454, 980, 476 web-sites. This promotion is part of a financial empowerment program to alleviate poverty in the global-world. Countries like Australia, Canada, Russia, New Zealand, France, India and the middle east where we intend to alleviate poverty for the year 2011.

Your email has drawn the winning ticket number UKL/OXXT/31.2011. Please keep this ticket number safe.

Please contact Our Representative: Mr. Peter Martins by email on (nlotto63@yahoo.co.uk) to claim your winnings the detailed information’s below.

1: TICKET NUMBER AS WRITTEN ABOVE.....................................

2: FULL NAMES.........................................................

3: FULL ADDRESS.......................................................

4: DATE OF BIRTH:.....................................................

5: A SCANNED COPY IDENTIFICATION ( DRIVER’S LICENSE OR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT)

6: PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS/DIRECT MOBILE NUMBERS.

7: COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.

8: OCCUPATION.

( WINNERS BELOW 18 WILL BE DISQUALIFIED)

Thank you for your time and congratulations.

Mr. Matthew keston.
Coordinator O2 UK Online Version United Kingdom National Lottery.

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