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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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • +448712435310 (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.
  • freelottocompany_london1@yahoo.ie (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • neil_bruice@kaixo.com
  • neil_bruice@kaixo.com

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Sophia=20halendale?= <freelottocompany_london1@yahoo.ie>
Reply-To: freelottocompany@kaixo.com
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 04:35:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: ANNUAL AWARD WINNER


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: freelottocompany_london1@yahoo.ie

THE FREELOTTO COMPANY

UK OFFICE

SUITE 23-30, LION TOWERS

CENTRAL LONDON

ENGLAND

www.freelotto.com

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the FreeLotto draw held yesterday the 28th March. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as category 2 winners in this year's Annual Free Lotto Draw.Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of £1,000,000.00 pounds (one million pounds) only.The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11

(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76

(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK

(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

Please contact the under listed claims officer via email (neil_bruice@kaixo.com) or fax 448712435310 as soon as possible for the immediate release and payment of your winnings:

Mr. Bruce Neil

Chief financial Director

The Freelotto Company

Fax: +44 8712 435 310

neil_bruice@kaixo.com

N.B: Steps to claim your prize

1. Winners must immediately pay a non-deductible amount of £695.00 pounds only as fee before claiming their prize for the processing and handling of award. Note that your prize have been insured to the real value of £1,000 000.00 pounds hence no deduction can be done.

2. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims officer.

3. Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address where they want their prize paid or sent.

4. Winners must send their names, address, and telephone number and means of identification (international passport or drivers' license) to claim officer to process immediate payment of their prize.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality,and press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.Once again on behalf of all our staff,CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

Sophia Halendale

Promotions Manager

The FreeLotto Company

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The Free Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by a conglomerate of international IT companies.The free lotto Internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

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We also encourage you to visit our website at www.freelotto.com and take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners. Millions are won on a daily basis on one of the world's most famous free lotto service.






- Sophia halendale

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