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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "suite 23-30,lion towers"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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 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.
  • freelotto_claimagent@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "WINNING NOTIFICATION" <freelotto33@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:08:20 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS A WINNER..

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND

Dear Winner,
 
We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the FreeLotto draw held on the January 13th 2006. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual
FreeLotto Draw.
 
Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of 1,000,000 pounds (one million pounds) only.The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:
 
(i)  winning numbers:  08-18-25-32-33-40
(ii)  email ticket number:  FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number:    FL09622UK
(iv)  the file Ref number:  FL/04/736207152/UK
 
Contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A"Winners
with the informatiom below:Your allocated claim agent details are are follows:

Mr. Fanison Williams

Chief Claims Officer
The Freelotto Company
TEL: 44 702 401 7293
FAX: 44 709 287 4307

EMAIL: freelotto_claimagent@yahoo.co.uk

N.B: Steps to claiming your prize;

1.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims officer.

2.Winners must send thier names, address, telephone number and means of identification (international passport, drivers licence or work I'D card) to claim officer, via email or fax, to process the immediate payment of your prize.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
 
Sincerely,
Fanison Williams Promotions Manager
The Lotto company
UK & Europe.
 
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The FreeLotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.The freelotto internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

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