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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.
  • +447031916333 (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.
  • nationallottery_england@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Johnson Waters" <england_n_lottery@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: nationallottery_england@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:19:09 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!: THIS IS OUR THIRD AND FINAL NOTICE

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
32 Ledgers Way, Somerset BA11 2UD. London. England.
Tel +447031916333 Fax +442083165833
Email : nationallottery_england@yahoo.co.uk

WINNING NOTIFICATION
Batch number: 7056/190902/18
File number:G28701/LP3RS
Winning number 004/HW
Reference:475061725
Date: 08/10/2005

Congrats Candidate,
We are happy to announce to you the draw of The Natinal World Lottery
programs held on the 8th of October, 2005 in England U.K. Your e-mail
address was matched to ticket and winning number above , which subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved to
claim a total sum of £500,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds Sterling Only)
in cash credited to file ILP/HW/47509/04.

This is from a total cash prize of £10,000,000 (Ten Million Pounds) shared
amongst the first Twenty (20) lucky winners in this category world-wide.
Note that your lucky winning number falls within our Afro booklet
representative office in England as indicated in your play coupon.
In view of this, your £500,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds) would be
released to you by our payment centre in England. Our Payment Centre will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your winning
amount as soon as you contact them. Be informed that all participants were
selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and
extracted from over 22,000,000 companies and individuals. This promotion
takes place annually.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
strictly confidential till your claims is processed and your winning amount
is 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 by some unscrupulous elements. Please be
informed that all winning must be claimed before 90 days of draw date.
Please quote your Ticket, File, draw winning and Batch numbers in any
correspondences with us or our payment centre.
This information transmitted is only for the person or Entity to which it is
addressed and may contain Confidential or privileged materials. Any review,
retransmission, dissemination or other use of this Information, or taking of
any action in reliance upon this information, by person or entities other
than the Intended recipient is may result to disqualification. Thank you for
being part of our promotional lottery program.

THIS IS OUR THIRD AND FINAL NOTICE

Sincerely Yours,
Dr Johnson Waters,
Foreign Operational Manager

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