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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• 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.
  • @yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "EUROPEAN AWARD" <eurprizeaward@sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:10:48 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION/ PROCESSING ADVISE

	EUROPEAN PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF: (Registration LT12).   Corporate headquarters P O Box 2314 Bermingham, b80 1up UNITED KINGDOM

                         

                             

                                 
     WINNING NOTIFICATION/ PROCESSING ADVISE

 

Security Code No.ULI/APRXX/05
 Ref: UK/9420X/68
 Batch: 07405/ZY369 

Winning no: GB8701/LPRC

 

 Dear Lucky Winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on saturday feb. 25th, 2006 from the United Kingdom 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; 5647560054 serial number 5360/02 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 7-27-29-37-14 bonus number 40, which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

 

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of 1,000,000.00 GBP.(ONE MILLION GREAT BRITAIN POUNDS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of 1,000,000.00GBP

 

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 was 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.

 

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our representative offices in europe, as indicated in your play coupon.

 

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE, Simply contact our agent, MR THOMAS TENNANT:

Email: thomastenn1960@yahoo.co.uk

Tele: 0044 704 011 0466

 

For the immediate release of your funds you are to  provide the following details to our agent;

 

FULL NAMES OF BENEFICIARY:........................

 

CONTACT ADDRESS:..................................

 

CITY/STATE:.......................................

 

COUNTRY:..........................................

 

NATIONALITY:......................................

 

OCCUPATION:.....................................

 

SEX:.......................AGE:...................

 

MARITAL STATUS...................................

 

TEL NO:...........................................

 

NEXT OF KIN:......................................

 

AMOUNT WON:.......................................

 

REFENCE NO:................BATCH NO:..............

 

LUCKY NO:..................TICKET NO..............

 

SERIAL NO:.................LOTTERY DATE:..........

 

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel, Please Be Warned.

 

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed before MARCH 24TH 2006; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity.

 

 

Richard  Woodgate

Coodinator

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