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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.
• 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.
  • mark79ellis@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: FREE LOTTERY <ukfreelottery@masini.ro>
Reply-To: "FREE LOTTERY" <mark79ellis@netscape.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:15:54 EEST
Subject: Free Lottery Sweepstakes

The Free Lottery Sweepstakes,
P O Box 1010,
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM

FROM:THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY:WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION.CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
Free Lotto draw held on the 2nd of June 2006. All 10 winning addresses
were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international
emails.Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2
winner in this year's Annual FreeLotto Draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
£1,000,000 (GBP) (one million POUNDS) only.in order to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers all correspondence

1,ticket number: 5420658766483
2,BATCH:47901527
3,The file Ref number: 333/656/4509
4,lucky numbers 10-16-18-23-31-55
5,lotto code number: FLs09622

Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for
the immediate release of your winnings:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mr. Mark Ellis
Email : mark79ellis@netscape.net
TEL/Fax: 34 639 228 766

For processing and remittance of your cash to a designated account of
your choice. remember,all winnings must be claim not later than June
20th 2006, After this date,All unclaims funds will be returned to the
International Lotto, you should contact Mr. Mark Ellis about the
claimant
procedures.

Please note,in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications
please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers all correspondence. Furthermore,should there be any change of address do inform the Mr. Mark Ellis as soon as possible. Mr. Mark Ellis is responsible for the processing of your approved file to the bank for payment.

Congratulations once again, from all members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotions program.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,reply to(mark79ellis@netscape.net)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Ann Mary
Promotions Manager
The Free Lottery Sweepstakes,
P O Box 1010,
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM





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