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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.
  • +447031845857 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Alexander Freeman" <premierdirector@msn.com>
Reply-To: claimsagent3@netscape.net
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:05:23 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

MEMO FROM: THE PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT

PREMIER LOTTERY

Congratulations Category a Prize winner! You have been

selected as one of two winners of the PREMIER LOTTERY,

computer ballot draws and thus will be a

privileged recipient of the grand draw prize of £

6,500,000 (Six million five hundred thousand Great

Britain Pounds only). Winning File Reference number

for your prize is PLUK/2030/0181/08; ticket number

101-OIO-77/A.

We in the PREMIER LOTTERY,is by this program,

launching our model computer balloting lottery draws,

developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of the

evergrowing number of participants in our various

lottery programs. Withfunds accrued exclusively from

previous draws, payouts to all Winners are guaranteed

and will be transferred in record time.

After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an

initial database of 300,000 emails and zoning all

participants by their respective continents from

across the globe, we produced an extensive list from

which you have emerged as one of the winners of the

Grand Draw prize.

To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings, the

transfer of your prize is to be handled by your Claims

Director. You are to contact our agent by email and/or

fax within a week of receiving this notice. Please

find full contact details below:

MR. Felix Calton,

FINANCIAL DIRECTOR,

LINKTRUST FINANCE LTD.

EMAIL:claimsagent04@netscape.com

TEL: +44 703 184 5857

TEL: +44 703 193 1612

Also find all other relevant winning lottery

information below:

Draw Serial No: 55/849177

Batch No:01-A223

Zonal Draw No: A1-101

Grand Draw No: 56748

You are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery

information and numbers from the public in line with

our company security protocol to avoid double claiming

and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous

individuals.

Please direct all further correspondence and queries

to your respective category Prize Transfer handlers.

Congratulations once again from the PREMIER LOTTERY

Family.

Sincerely,

Alexander Freeman,

THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

PREMIERLOTTERY,

12 BRIDGE STREET,

STAINES MIDDLESEX TW18 4TP UK,

UNITEDKINGDOM.

TEL/FAX: 44 70928998613

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