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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "royal home electronic lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +441212880039

Fraud email example:

From: "Lucky Winners" <lucky_winners2006@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:02:08 +0000
Subject: You emerged our winner

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

NOTIFICATION OF YOUR EMAIL LOTTO WINNING

We are pleased to inform you from ROYAL HOME ELECTRONIC LOTTERY of the
announcement today,3rd January 2006 as one of the lucky winners of The ROYAL
HOME ELECTRONIC LOTTERY draws, held on the 31st Of December 2005 as part of
our E-business promotional draws end.
Participants in the draws were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from 2,500,000
email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,
Australia, Europe, Middle East, as part of our electronic business
Promotions.

You qualified for the draw as a result of your visiting various websites we
are running the Electronic-business promotions for. You/Your Company email
address, attached with REFERENCE NUMBER: BMX=200X-19Z4-DMX, BATCH NUMBER:
YY77-XOO with serial number 215-18 drew the lucky numbers 12, 19, 27, 30,
34, 52, 89, and consequently won the 2005 1ST Quarter draw.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £950,000 in
cash, which is the winning payout for First category winners. This is from
the total prize money of £10,500,000.00 shared among the seven winners in
the First category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents. ( BUCKINGHAM FINANCE
AND AGENCY Limited),As we have notified them. Due to the mix that may arise
from emails of winners and numbers we ask that you keep this award strictly
from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money
remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with
a part of your prize, you will participate in our End of year (2006) high
stakes £1.1 billion International Lottery.

To begin your claim, please contact our paying agent who also will be your
claim agent immediately:

MR.JEFFREY BOTHA
MANAGER BROKERAGE SERVICE
BUCKINGHAM FINANCE AND AGENCY
Email:bothajef@di-ve.com
TEL: +44-121-288-0039
Fax: +44-207-900-2480

For due processing and remittance of your prize money,
Remember you must contact your claim agent not later
than 15TH Of January 2006 after this date, all funds
will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please remember to quote your reference
and batch numbers provided below in every one of your
correspondences with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER:BMX=200X-19Z4-DMX
BATCH NUMBER:YY77-XOO
Also to begin your Claim send to your claims agent the following
information by email.

1) YOUR BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS and AMOUNT WON
2) YOUR FULL NAME AND AGE
3) YOUR ADDRESS
4) A COPY OF YOUR ID (PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LISCENCE)
5) CONTACT TLEPHONE, MOBILE PHONE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBER

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

THE LOTTO AWARDS MANAGER,
ROYAL HOME ELECTRONIC LOTTERY
Hunter Street
LONDON
MK18 1EG
United Kingdom

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
disqualification. This is a computer generated message. Please do not reply
to this mail since we will be unable to answer these replies.Contact your
claims agent by email fax or phone



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