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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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 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.
  • +447023056893 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • mailpaullampard@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD" <uknationallotteryboard001@msn.com>
Reply-To: mailpaullampard@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:33:46 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION/HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

U.K National Lottery Headquarters: Customer Service 28 TANFIELD ROAD, CROYDON.LONDON UNITED KINDOM                                                           Date:23/01/06                                WINNING NOTIFICATION/HAPPY NEW YEAR    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 1st of Jan. 2006.Your email account have been picked as a winner of TWO HURNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS (£250,000). This results is now released to you on 23/01/06.  All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer ballot draw system and extracted from over 100,000 union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion is part of this years uk national lottery email users bonaza. 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 retured to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications contact your claims agent ASAP. 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 submit the completed form to your claims agent:   *IMPORTANT* FILL OUT THIS WINNERS VERIFICATION FORM BELOW:   *Name of Winner: *Address: *City/State: *Nationality: *Sex: *Email Address: *Tel: *Occupation: *Next of Kin: *Age: *AMOUNT WON:   Contact your claims agent at the National Lottery Head Quarters with the below details: Name Of Agent: Mr Paul Lampard. Email Adress: mailpaullampard@yahoo.com    Tel:  +44 702 305 6893 Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program. Accept my hearty congratulations once again Mrs. Mary Anders Zonal Coordinator U.K National Lottery.

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