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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:
  • "lottery winners international e-mail programs"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim 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 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.
  • dorandorisuk@ummah.org

Fraud email example:

From: "Davis Watts" <myukk2005@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:13:42 +0000
Subject: THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSION OF DATE/ CONGRATULATIONS/LOTTERY AWARD WINNER

EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
FROM: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REF: EML/ES/IPP/1555002244/05
BATCH: ES34/044/ILP /SL
RE:CONGRATULATIONS/LOTTERY AWARD WINNER
DATE: 5TH JANUARY , 2006

THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSION OF DATE

Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Euro millions Lottery
Winners International E-mail programs held on the 30TH of DECEMBER,
2005.Your E-mail address attached to ticket number 2203-006 with lucky main
number 01 26 31 34 47 drew lucky star numbers 04 09, which consequently won
in the 3rd category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out
of 1,000,000.00 Euro. (One Million Euro)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names/programme abuse, we ask that you
keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been
processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by
some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
over 100,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email addresses and names
from all over the world.

We hope with part of your winning you will take part in our end of year 50
millions Euro International lottery. this is an irish woman who won

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4730113.stm

To file for your claim, please contact our fiducial/Claim agent:

MRS DORIS DORAN
TELFAX:+448701361132
Email:dorandorisuk@ummah.org

Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 18TH of JANUARY 2006.
After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please

remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all
correspondence.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Sincerely yours,

Mr D Watts,
Lottery Coordinator.

SEND REQUIRED INFORMATION TO YOUR CLAIM AGENT
Email: dorandorisuk@ummah.org
TELFAX:+448701361132

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