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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "into your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447040106494 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Free Lotto" <free_675@msn.com>
Reply-To: free_uk005@msn.com
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:57:17 +0000
Subject: Dear Winner

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
The Marina Offices,
upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England



Dear Winner,

WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
FreeLotto draw held on the 1st of january 2006 . Your e-mail address
attached to ticket number FL754/22/76 with reference number
FL/04/736207152/UK drew winning numbers 37-13-43-85-67-11 and lotto code
number FL09622UK, which consequently won in the 2ndcategory via our
electronic ticket as stated above. You have therefore been
approved for a pay out of 1,000,000.00 (One Million Pounds).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Total funds have now been deposited and insured with our affiliate security
firm for transfer into your nominated bank account either by means of wire
transfers through any of our correspondent banks or any other means suitable
to you. We also advice that you keep your winning information very
confidential as our security policy demands to avoid double
claims/impersonation and unwarranted abuse of this program by some
individuals.

All participants were selected through a random computer ballot system drawn
from over 800,000 company and 1,000,000 individual email addresses and names
from all over the world. This promotional program takes place annually and
we hope with part of your winning you will take part in our next year ?20
Million Pounds International Lottery.

Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for
immediate release of your winnings:

Robert Kirton
Chief financial Director
The Freelotto Company
TEL:+447040106494
TEL:+447040117493
FAX:+448701308158
free_uk005@msn.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice.Remember,you must contact your claims officer not
later than one week from the receipt of this mail.After this date, all funds
will be included in our subsequent program coming up later in 2005.All
correspondences to ROBERT KIRTON by email should have this email sent along
with it and also, your email address to which this emailis sent,should be
clearly and boldly written in your response.


This lottery is promoted and sponsored by software corporations and other
private organizations to help individuals generate fortunes which would
encourage them to expand their business frontiers thereby creating more
opportunities and assisting with humanitarian concerns within their
immediate environment. Please Note that winnings must be claimed not later
than 22nd of january 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be
included in our subsequent program coming up later in 2006. In order to
avoid complications always quote your reference number in all
correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform us as soon as
possible. Congratulations from our organization and thank you for being part
of our promotional program.

N.B: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified from this
program.


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

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Vera White
Promotions Manager
The Lotto company
UK & Europe.


Note : Do not take this for a junk letter. If you ignore this, you will
regret later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and
in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely
used program, Microsoft and AOL are running this email lottery.To encourage
the use of the internet.



























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your e-mail address because you have visited on of our sponsored sites and
have voluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their
sponsors.If you wish to be taken out of this list do not reply to this mail,
reply to the agent with the words remove. If you are not the intended
recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute,
print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you have received
this message in error, please delete it and all copies of it from your
system and notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail. Thank you.

Anti-fraud resources:

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