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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "foreign service manager" (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)
  • "million british pounds" (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.
  • phillipjan04@lycos.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "GOLDEN FORTUNES LOTTERY" <fortunes_1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: phillipjan04@lycos.com
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:48:29 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A UK LOTTO WINNER

GOLDEN FORTUNES LOTTERY
106 BOROUGH HIGH STREET
MORGATE EC1
LONDON.
UNITED KINGDOM.

RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION / PROCESSMENT ADVICE

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of, 5th June, 2006 of
winners of the SCIENTIFIC GAME PROMO LOTTERY; UNITED
KINGDOM/INTERNATIONAL,PROGRAMS held on 20th December, 2005. Your email
address attached to ticket number 023-56678230954, drew the lucky numbers
7-14-21-42-49-59,batch number 6858/UK and consequently won the lottery in
the 1st category. You have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of
2,500.000.00 British pounds (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) is
credited to file LOTTERY REF NO.SGIL/763276/03.

This is from total prize money of 20,000,000.00 POUNDS shared among the
forty national winners in categories C with serial
number:IL/FLW/12-C033721192. All participants were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn form 25,000 company email addresses and
30,000,000 individual email addresses from Australia, New Zealand, America,
Europe, North America and Asia as part of International Promotions Program,
which is conducted annually.

CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now in custody of a financial bank company
insured in your FILE REFERENCE. Due to the mix up of some numbers and
names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until
your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This
is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous
acts by participants of this program. Our group of philanthropist headed by
the British government promoted this lottery program. We hope with a part
of you prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes
#10,000,000 million british pounds International Lottery.

To begin your claim, please contact and attention your file/claim officer:

MR.PHILIP JAN.
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER
106 BOROUGH HIGH STREET
MORGATE EC1
LONDON.
UNITED KINGDOM.
REPLY mail TO :EMAIL: phillipjan04@lycos.com

Please be aware that your Paying Authority will Effect Payment Swiftly upon
satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided by our processing
Agent; that would be designated to your file. For due processing and
remittance of your winning prize to your designated account of your choice.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30th July. 2006.
After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your
correspondences with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of
your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for Being
part of our promotional program. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is
AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED.

Sincerely,
NAOMI VANDIJK. (Lottery Coordinator)
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the Winners will result to
disqualification.
OUR Executives:
Dr. P. Swier (CEO), Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr.
Franklyn paul mpard(Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams
(Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Lonni K Anderson (Legal
Representative), Mrs. Lyudmyla Marchukova(Regional Manager), Mr. Stephen
Boer (Chairman), Mr. Chris Moritz(International Relation Officer).

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