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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 us 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 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.
  • +448700682471 (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.
  • britishlottowontoday@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "jerry smith" <jerrysmith300@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:03:15 +0000
Subject: congrats you won the Lotto"

CROYDON.LONDON Batch: 12/25/0340
Ref: BTL/101OXI/02
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
NOTIFICATION DESK

We are please to announce you as one of the 100 lucky winners in the BRITISH
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY draw held on the 7TH of NOVEMBER, 2005 All 10 winning
addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international
emails.
Your email address emerged alongside 99 others as a category 2 winner in
this year's Annual BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY. Consequently, you have
therefore been approved for a total pay out of $3,000,000,00(Three Million
US Dollars) only.

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to
quote your reference number and batch numbers all correspondence.

1,Email ticket number: ticket # 88171/29281/57363
2,BATCH:# 742-109-527-UK43
3,The file Ref # : 920/210/4509
4,lucky # 9-21-81-91-34-45
5,lotto code # : FL09622/UK

Please contact the under listed claims officer as soon as possible for the
immediate release of your winnings:

Mr. Jerry Smiths
Chief financial Director
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Telephone number +44 -704-0180-807
Fax: +44-870-068-2471
Email : britishlottowontoday@yahoo.co.uk

For processing and remittance of your cash to a designated account of your
choice. remember, all winnings must be claim not later than 30th of JUNE,
2006, After this date, All unclaims funds will be returned to the
International Lotto, you should contact Mr. Jerry Smith about the claimant
procedures, send your fax and telephone to Mr. Jerry Smith, this will enable
his office to send the claims application form (A4)to you the Beneficiary.

Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications ,please
remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers all
correspondence. Further more, should there be any change of address do
inform Mr.Jerry Smith as soon as possible. Mr. Jerry Smith 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 ((britishlottowontoday@yahoo.co.uk ))
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely,
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY promotions Manager The Lotto company Copyright
1994-2005 The British International Lottery, Email Lottery Inc. All rights
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