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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: "uknational lottery" <postmaster_uk222@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:51:08 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOU HAVE WON 250,000 POUND STERLING

UKONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK. GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!! UKONLINE?INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration Z720633X).Date:11TH/1/06 National Lottery            P O Box 1010          Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services) Ref: UK/9420X/05  Batch: 074/05/ZY369                                                                                                                              AWARD NOTIFICATION  U.K National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on.7th of January 2006.Your email account have been picked as a winner of  TWO HURNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS (£250,000).   All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place bianually i.e twice in a year. U.K National lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). This promotional lottery is the tenth of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.  All winning must be claimed not later than eight working days of this notification. After this time all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence. Be advice to 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,For the release of your winning,kindly contact the FIDUCIARY DEPARTMENT in National Lottery Head Quarters via email,with Email Adress: claimsagent@uknation.co.uk and apply for the release of your winnings,with the below informations. REF Nº: BATCH Nº: Winning Email Address: Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program. Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International funds Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).MRS JULIE VAN HANS (VICE PRESIDENT) Accept my hearty congratulations once again   Brain Hunt Controller GeoTrust SSL Reseller

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