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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.
  • +447031844058 (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.
  • winninginformation1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • revfrmichaelthomas@delfi.lv (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?NATIONAL=20LOTTERY=20UNITED=20KINGDOM?= <winninginformation1@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: revfrmichaelthomas@delfi.lv
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 08:03:26 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS ! YOU HAVE WON A BRITISH LOTTERY PROGRAMME


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: winninginformation1@yahoo.co.uk

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY

P.O.Box 1010

Liverpool, L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)

Ref: UK/9420X/06

Batch: 074/06/ZY369

+447031844058

23rd May, 2006





CONGRATULATIONS !



Dear Lucky Winner,



The National Lottery United Kingdom wishes to

announance to you the results of the E-mail address

ballot lottery international program held on Sat 22

April 06. Your email account has been picked as a

Winner of Jackpot Prize of ONE HUNDRED AND FORTEEN

THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY SIX BRITISH POUNDS

STERLING ONLY {£114,196}.



Your lucky winning numbers are:- 09 24 30 40 42 48

BONUS 15.



Based on the above notification, this amount ONE

HUNDRED AND FORTEEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY

SIX BRITISH POUNDS STERLING ONLY {£114,196}; will be

paid to you by one of our nominated Paying Bank

selected by the Management of the National Lottery cum

the British Government as soon as your payment is

processed by our accredited Processing Agent: Rev. Fr.

Michael Thomas. [revfrmichaelthomas@delfi.lv]



For security reasons, you are advice to keep all your

winning information confidential till your claims are

processed by our Accredited Agent and your Prize paid

to you by the paying bank. This is part of our

precautionary measures backed by International Game

Act to avoid double claiming and UNWARRANTED ABUSE of

this program by FRAUDULENT individual(s).



You are ONLY advice to contact our accredited

PROCESSING AGENT immediately for the processing of

your payment: REV. FR. MICHAEL THOMAS, Email:-

revfrmichaelthomas@delfi.lv



Yours faithfully,

DR.P. SWIER

PRESIDENT

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY



Dr.P.Swier,(President), Dr. Bond Smith, (Vice

President), Mr.Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign

Operations),Mr.Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager

Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams

(Director International Credit Department), Mrs.Sandra

Murphy (Executive), Mr.Michael Cole (Executive), Mr.

Stephen Boer (Chairman).

********************DISCLAIMER***********************

This email and any files transmitted with it are

confidential and intended solely for the use of the

individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If

you have received this email in error please notify

the system manager. This message contains confidential

information and is intended only for the individual

named. If you are not the named addressee you should

not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.

- NATIONAL LOTTERY UNITED KINGDOM

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