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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447031871316 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • uklottery_claim_office@mail.az (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • mikejean_claimoffice@mail.az
  • venessasmith212@yahoo.no (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "british lottery" <brit_lttysa@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:42:04 +0200
Subject: ONLINE FREE BRITISH LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR DOGU

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY  

 

 

 

 

Ref: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch: 12/25/0304
 

                             

                           congratulation

                                  DOGU 

This is online British International Free Lottery is a computer program created to select at random people's email ID's attached to a winning number of a draw that was held in their absence to declare such a person, or organization winners of such. Thus you are requested to conceal every information regarding your prize to avoid someone else to put up the claim. You are always meant to call your claim agent for more directives.

                                           
We happily announce to you the draw of the British Lottery International programs held on the 16th of JULY 2006 in London, United Kingdom. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545-188 with serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 3-6-26-13-35-20, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. Note that your claim would come from the place of the draw, which was in your absence.
 
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of UK£3,000,000.00(Three   million Pounds) in cash credited to file RPC/9080118308/04 made available from a total cash prize of UK £125 Million Pounds, shared amongst the first Fifty (50) lucky winners in this category. This years Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for British Lottery. The estimated £125 million jackpot would be the sixth biggest in British history. The biggest was the £363 million jackpot that went to two winners in a May 2000 draw of The Big Game, Mega Millions' predecessor.
 
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your UK£3,000,000.00 (Three million Pounds) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in London. Our agent will immediately commence the facilitation of release of funds to you as soon as you establish contact.
 
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through a computer drawn system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons this is part of precautionary measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unselected individuals. Please be warned. To file for your claim, also you are to send you reply to the claim office email address below, please you are to contact the international zonal coordinator for immediate clarification of your lotto fund to be  process immediately without no delay.

 

uklottery_claim_office@mail.az

mikejean_claimoffice@mail.az

TEL +447031871316

TEL +447031871314

FAX +447031881576

FAX +447031881324

 

Vanessa Smith was one of our previous lucky winners in the first half of the year to share the Lotto Rollover Jackpot , each scooping a massive 1,400,000 million Pounds. For details you can contact me on my direct email address below venessasmith212@yahoo.no  Mr. mike jean  International zonal coordinator

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