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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 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: "mary jonson" <maryjonson@workinhours.com>
Reply-To: hsbc@consultant-mail.com
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:23:08 +0000
Subject: UK NATIONAL DRAWS

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

                                     WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#458) of the THUNDERBALL WINNING under the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday 18TH February 2006
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545
with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers  

 

which subsequently won you the lottery of the Jackpot Prize.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of   £850,000.00 (Eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.All participants for the online version were selected randomly fromWorld Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listedonline. This promotion takes place weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon. In view of this, your £850,000.00  would be released to you by our own afflilated bank HSBC BANK .

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claims is processed and your money
remitted to you in This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned. We have resulted to pay winners only by bank wire transfer.To enable us file in your name for payment,

please do provide the following information:

 

1.YOUR FULLNAMES:

2.SEX:

3.ADDRESS:

4.FAX NUMBER:

5.PHONE NUMBERS:

6.OCCUPATION:

7.COMPANY'S NAME:

8.AGE:

9.REF/BATCH NUMBERS:

10.COUNTRY:

 

Please contact the handling consultant at the official bank HSBC BANK , for immediate remittance of your winnings through the email below.

 

Mr.James Smith

Email: hsbc@consultant-mail.com

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Mary Jonson.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

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