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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:

• 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.
  • franklampard@london.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Dwine Dwine" <dwine2005@dwine.org>
Reply-To: franklampard@london.com
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 10:07:22 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION


National Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
an Affiliate of watergate inc.
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02
Batch: 12/25/DC34

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the National Sweepstake Lottery
International programs held on the 25th day of July 2005 in London.Your Name
and e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545188
with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7,which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore, been
approved to claim a total sum of £5,500,000.00(five Million Five Hundred
Thousand Pound) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This is from a
total cash prize of £125 Million pound.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon.
In view of this, your £5,500,000.00(Five Million Five Hundred Thousand
Pound)would be released to you by our affiliate bank in London.Our agent
will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to
you
as soon as you make contact with him .
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.This
promotion takes place annually. 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 a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.
Please be warned.To file for your claim, please contact The Officer incharge
with the below details for processing of your claims.
OFFICER:MR FRANK LAMPARD FINANCIAL DIRECTOR UK LOTTERY
EMAIL:franklampard@london.com
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated
agent.Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this
program.Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
Dwine Nicholas
EURO-ASIAN Zonal Coordinator

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