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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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Please note about this email:

• It lists mobile phone numbers or call redirection numbers (no bank, lottery, etc would use mobile phones to take customer calls).
  
• It lists free email accounts as contact addresses (companies do not use such addresses)
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Tina Forrester" <camelotpromos3@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:57:22 +0000
Subject: <<CAMELOT PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION>>

CAMELOT LOTTERY PROMOS,
406 BURY NEW ROAD,
WHITEFIELD,
MANCHESTER M45 7SX,
U.K.

 

FROM: THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF NO: MELI-T/17-F044262312

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 6 lucky winners in the CAMELOT LOTTERY PROMOTIONS held on 17th of September, 2005. All 6 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 40,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 5 others as a 3rd category winner in this month's draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of £300,000 Pounds (Three Hundred Thousand pounds) only. The following particulars are attached to your lottery payment order;

 

(i)   Winning numbers:    990-11-815-37-10-83
(ii)  Email ticket number: 901-0148-790-691
(iii) Lotto Batch No.    13/FFP/LDL/037
(IV)  File REF NO:     MELI-T/17-F044262312

 

Please contact the under listed claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

 

CONTACT AGENCY:
MR. LARRY BISHOP AND ASSOCIATES LTD U.K,
20 Lausanne Road London,
SW2 3JB ENGLAND.U.K
Email: camelot_claims_dept@hotmail.com 
Tel:   +44-703-194-7368
 
Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

 

Sincerely,
Mrs.Tina Forrester,
LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS.
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT U.K.,
406 BURY NEW ROAD WHITEFIELD,
MANCHESTER M45 7SX,
U.K.

 

N.B:
1. All claims are nullified after 20 working days from today.
2. Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addresses.

3. Please see that you quote your REF and Batch Numbers in your correspondence with your Claims Officer.
4. Please do not reply to this email. Contact your claims agent.

..........................................................................................................................................

 

The Camelot Lottery Promos Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomerate of other international IT companies. The Camelot Lottery Internet draw is held in each quater of the year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that up to Fifty Million Pounds are won annually in more than 150 Countries worldwide.

 

 

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