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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "international lottery programme"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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.
  • deniss_coleman8@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "JOHN SMITH" <uklotterypromotionxxx@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:08:30 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FOR WINNING UK LOTTERY PROMOTION,

From: John Smith

subject:CONGRATULATIONS FOR WINNING

Sent: febuary thursday 9, 2006 4:21 PM

contact:deniss_coleman8@yahoo.com 

Ref: 475061725

Batch: 7056490902/188

Winning no:GB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS

Dear Sir/Madam

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 4th of

January 2006 from the British International Lottery programme. Which is

fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail

addresses.

Your name was attached to ticket number;4706172507056490902 serial

number 7741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows

5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

You here by have been approved a lump sum pay of US$2,200,000.00 (TWO

MILLION,TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cashprize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.

All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn

form Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,

Australia,United States, Asia,Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania

as part of our international promotions program which is conducted

annually.

This Lottery as promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some

multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base and the Hurricane Kathrina Disaster.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European

representative office in London, as indicated inyour play coupon and

your prize of US$2,200,000.00 will be released toyoufrom this regional

branch office in London England.We hope with partofyour prize, you will

participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:

Simply contact our fiducial agent, Mr Denis Coleman .  at

deniss_coleman8@yahoo.com  to file for your claim . Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily.For security reasons,we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processedand your prize released to you.This is part of our security protocolto avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme bynon-participant or  unofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST beclaimed by the 30th of March 2006; otherwise

all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity

congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Best Regards

JOHN SMITH(co-ordinator)

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT deniss_coleman8@yahoo.com  ANY BREACH OFCONFIDENTIALITY ONTHE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION  

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