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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447011146773 (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.
  • microsoftpaymentreleasedept1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "microsoftweblottery promo" <mic_-12_cccc_0211@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: microsoftpaymentreleasedept1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:37:00 -0500
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS EMMERGE AS A WINNINER IN THIS LOTTERY PROMO

 

MICROSOFT AWARD LOTTERY, 14 FRATON ROAD FULHAM, LONDON Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN Batch: 12/25/0034                                                             WINNING NOTIFICATION

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!! MICROSOFT WEB LOTTERY IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF: (Registration Z720633X).                         Dear,Sir/Madam, SUBJECT: WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!!!:   This is to inform you that your email address has won the microsoft lottery which  was held on the 9th of January  2007,The prestigious Micrsoft and aol has set out and sucessfully organised a Sweepstakes marking the year 2007 anniversary a row out,your email with serial number 5388/02  , ticket number564 75600545 188 , lucky number 80 056 849 18  and bonus number  17 hit the jackpot       In cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02/SHYN.This is from a total cash prize of £500,000.00{Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain pounds Sterlings}shared among the {10} lucky winners in this category i.e January 5 plus bonus. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.  Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Microsoft booklet representative office in London as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your £500,000.00 {Five Hundred Great Britain pounds Sterlings} would be released to you by our affiliate Forwarding service in London. Our  agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. 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. For the immediate release of your funds you are to  contact the  fiduciary agent;Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates,   *************************************************************** Name:Mr Gary Norman PHONE:+447011146773 E-mail:microsoftpaymentreleasedept1@yahoo.co.uk   Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order Department,              LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM ***************************************************************  you are given two options,you are to choose one of them in which we are going to used in sending your winning funds to you, (1)TELEGRAPHIC/ELECTRONIC SWIFT CODE TRANSFER:  (2)DEPLOMATIC DELIVERY SERVICE:        sincerely   Yours faithfully, Mrs.Teresa Cole Lottery Coordinator.     The Lottery Company and lottery.co.uk is in no way affiliated with, associated with  approved or endorsed by Camelot Group plc or The National Lottery Commission.                                              Material Copyright © 2007 The Lottery Co. Ltd. •

WARNING!!! ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY OTHER TRADE MARK OR ADDRESS SHOULD BE FOWARDED TO THIS BOX IMMEDIATELY, THIS WILL HELP US TO FIGHT SCAM AND LOTTERY IMPOSTERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATE  

 

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