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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "bryan smith" <bryansmith@bryansmith4545.com>
Reply-To: bryansmith4545@indiatimes.com
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:53:07 +0000
Subject: congratulations.

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/04
Batch: R3/A312-59

October 22th, 2005

FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION:

Dear Lucky Winner,

I am Bryan Smith am happily announce to you the draw (#976) of the
UK-LOTTERY Sweepstake Lottery International programs held on the 22th
October, 2005 in LIVERPOOL UNITED KINGDOM. Your e-mail attached to ticket
number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 2
23 26 30 39 47 31, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st
category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of (Two
millions euros) in cash credited to file ktu/9023118308/03.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 individual mail and
companies. 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 (Two
millions euros) would be released to you by our payment office in Europe.
You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate the
processing of your claims and certificate which will facilitate the release
of your winnings.

1. Full names.
2. Phone number
3. Fax number
4. Occupation
5. Sex
6. Age
7. Nationality

Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transfered to you upon meeting our requirements,statutory
obligations,verifications, validations and satisfactory report. You are
advised to forward this information as soon as possible to enable us attend
to your winnings. Our firm has been contracted to handle payments on your
behalf, once we confirm your information, your payments would be processed.
Everything was done in sucha way that our payments mode would meet the
standards set by the Lottery boards.After you have sent down these
information, a certificate will be prepared for you.

Once again, congratulations.

Sir Bryan Smith
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program


Confidentiality Notice:

Please note that this email, and any files that may be attached to it,is/are
confidential and is/are intended for the sole use of the individual(s) or
entity(ies) to which it/they is/are addressed. Any use,distribution,copying
or disclosure by any other person or entity is strictly prohibited under
applicable law(s). If you received this email in error,please notify the
sender by return email and delete the original message (making sure it is
also deleted from the Deleted Items folder of your mail client).Opinions,
conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to
official business of NATIONAL LOTTERY and insurance shall be understood to
be neither given nor endorsed by NATIONAL LOTTERY finance and insurance when
addressed to comet finance and insurance clients; and any information
contained in this email is subject to the terms and conditions of the
governing client's contract(s).

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