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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • juan11406@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: francis douglas <frankdouglas35@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:03:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Winning Notification




Support Center,Bevan House,51 Bevan Avenue
ConwyLL28 5AF,United Kingdom



UK LOTTERY NOTIFICATION DEUK NATIONAL

LOTTERY
Support Center
Bevan House
51 Bevan Avenue
Conwy LL28 5AF
United Kingdom

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: UKNL/26510460037/06
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD

ATTENTION: Amarjit Singh,

RE: LOTTERY RESULT

Weare pleased to inform you of the announcement of winners of the
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, THE UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMS held inCroydon,London. You email address was attached to ticket number 023-0148-790-459, with serial number 5063-11 which drew lucky numbers 01-02-18-25-34-45-31, and consequently you won the lottery in the 2nd category star prize. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out Of $3,000,000.00(Three million united states dollars) credited to file REF NO.

UKNL/26510460037/04. This is from total prize money Of$30,000,000.00
shared among the ten International winners in this second category star prize All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Websites through computer drawn system and extracted from over 100,000 companies as part of International Promotions Programme by using a hi-tech advanced email address generator software with99.99% efficiency, which is conducted annually. your lucky winningnumber falls within our UK representative office in London, in view ofthis, your $3,000,000.00 united states dollars would be released to you by our preferred payment center in London. Our fiducial/claims agentwill immediately commence the process to facilitate the release ofyour funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claimsis processed and your money remitted to you.

To file for your claim, please contact our Verification Department: Mrs. Juan Williams Reply Email : juan11406@yahoo.co.uk

For due processingof your prize Money, please remember to
quote your Reference, batchand ticket numbers in every one of your
Correspondences with youragent. Furthermore, should there be any Change of your email address,do inform your fiducial/claims agent as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you forbeing part of our promotional lottery program. To file for your claim, please contact our Verification Department: Mrs. Juan Williams Reply Email : juan11406@yahoo.co.uk

Sincerely,

Francis Douglas
Zonal Co-ordinator




























































































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