419 scam: "Alex Goodwil"<payment@national-lottery.co.uk> CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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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.
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!
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.
- alexgoodwill@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Alex Goodwil" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <uklotteryagent1@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:36:06 -0300
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM

WINNER! WINNER! WINNER!

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 names 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 name emerged as one of two winners in the category "A”

REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937 , SERIAL No: S/N-00168, LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of us$689,000(Six Hundred and Eighty Nine Thousand United States Dollars) each from the total payout. Your prize award has been insured with your email address. Your shall be made by our paying Bank, HSBC Bank upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised the Bank officer in charge of all lotto winning for category "A" winners with the information below:

Your full name
Your full address
Your country
Your direct telephone contact
Copy of your identification
Your age, sex and marital status
Occupation & Position

Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained). Anybody under the age of 15 and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Please note; You are hereby advice to send the assign payment officer details below for Processing of your Claims;
YOUR FULL NAME, YOUR FULL ADDRESS, TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER(S), YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS, YOUR DATE OF BIRTH.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Sincerely,
Mr. Alex Goodwil
for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Email: alexgoodwill@rocketmail.com

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