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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand 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 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.
  • +6647269536 (Thailand, probably a mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "From the management of British/Asia lottery promotion" <map1_services@homs.cc> (may be fake)
Reply-To: winner_servicess@sfax.ws
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:32:56 -0700
Subject: Contact our agent for more informations

From the desk of:
The management of British lottery program London
in collaboration with Asia/pacific lottery promotion sponsored by
DHL EXPRESS WORLD-WIDE.
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL United Kingdom,
Price Award winner department,
Web site: www.lottery.co.uk
Ref. No: UK/Asp/2251256003/05
Batch No: 14/0017/1pd.
Winner's identity No: MM-52047

WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

Dear winner,
Congratulations!!
We the entire board and management of British lottery program UK in conjunction with Asia/pacific lottery promotion wishes to congratulate you for you had been selected as one of the lucky winner's of the e-mail address ballot lottery international program held on the 14th March 2006, and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this.

Your E-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545-188 with serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers which subsequently won you the "CASH PRIZE AWARD" lottery in the 2nd category, You have been therefore approved to claim a total sum of US$500,000,00(Five hundred thousand united states dollars) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize of US$25,000,000,00 shared amongst the(50)lucky winners in this category, All winners for the online version were selected randomly from world wide registered web-sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,unions,associations and corporate bodies that are listed online, this promotion takes place annually.

PLEASE NOTE THIS:
Your lucky winning numbers falls within our Asia booklet representative office as indicated in your play coupon, in view of this, your US$500,000,00(Five hundred thousand united states dollars) will be release to you by any of our payment offices in Asia.

Approximately (40) lucky winners including you today had been notified and may now contact our judiciary agents in all the designated regions for the immediate release of their cash prize award.

Our judiciary agents have been apportioned among six geographic regions, all lucky winners will need to act on their claims application quickly.

Do contact our Asia judiciary agent via this contact information's:
Office address: Diethelem tower a, Suite 302, 93/1 Wireless Road Panthumwan Bangkok, Thailand.
Tel: +66 47269536
Fax: +66 22378488
EmaiL: winner_servicess@sfax.ws

In order to avoid un-necessary delays and complications, endeavor to quote your reference, batch and winners numbers in your correspondence with us and you are advised not to expose your numbers to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program or your cash prize award winnings will be void, should there be any change of addresses do inform our agents as soon as possible, please be warned.

Notice:
Due to mix up of some names and numbers, we ask that you keep your winning information's confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you, this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION:
Why and how was I selected as one of the lucky winner's of the lottery program? Your registered e-mail address was extracted alongside 6.3million e-mail addresses through computer random extraction of e-mail addresses from world wide registered web-sites, during the 60-days extraction period that ran from 12.00 AM on August 5 2005,until midnight,Dec,22 2005,you was selected as one of the lucky winners through computer draw system.

ADVANCE QUESTION:
How can I make the claim of my cash prize award winning? Your cash prize award winning will be remitted to you as soon as you contact our judiciary agent.

Notice:
ANYONE BELOW EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE CAN MAKE HIS/HER CLAIM IN PROXY THROUGH EITHER OF THE PARENTS.

Notice:
According to the code of conducts in the constitution Vol: 189/965: Act 220S1 guiding all selected cash prize award winners and permit agencies: If non claim of your cash prize award winning before the 25th of August 2006, your winners status shall reveal no interest and we would in response refer your "CASH PRIZE AWARD" back to UK/Asia lottery promotion Service Center.

Once again CONGRATULATIONS from me and the entire member's of the lottery program.

Sincerely yours,

Mr.Geofrey Scott Cooker.
International Relations Officer.

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