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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 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.
  • +447031919196 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447092865823 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "JOHN SHEARER" <johnshearer05@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: john.uknational@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:52:54 -0700
Subject: Urgent Confirmation

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369 

 

Dear Winner,

 

We happily announce to you the draw (#991) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online   sweepstakes International program held on Mon 26^th September, 2005 Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:  56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:01-04-07-44-47-48 (bonus no.14), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of  £1,500,000{One Million Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file TU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of  £54,000,000 {Fifty Four Million Great Britain pounds sterling} shared amongst the {36} lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 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 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £1,500,000 {One Million Five Hundred thousand Great Britain pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. Our European 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. To file for your claim, please contact us  on +44-703-191-9196 &  +44-703-191-9202, FAX: +44-709-286-5823. You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize breakdown:-www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do. Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. John Shearer
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program
TEL:  +44-703-191-9196 
TEL:  +44-703-191-9202
FAX: +44-709-286-5823

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This message is the property of THE NATIONAL LOTTERY. Forwarding, printing, copying, or otherwise reproducing this message in any manner that would allow it to be viewed by any individual not originally listed as a recipient is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender and discard this message. Thank You

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