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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:

• 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.
  • +447040119990 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Vice President Office <peterford@luckydaylottery.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:11:37 +0200
Subject: LUCKYDAY

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
LUCKYDAY INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
HUDSON CAMBERWELL
www.luckyday.nl

BATCH NO: PLD/31214257/1988/2202 REFERENCE. NO. PLD/21449267/2550//2203

WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE........CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY
BALLOT INTERNATIONAL/ WORLD GAMING BOARD held on
the 15 of May 2006. Due to the mix up of number, the
results were released on the 3rd of July 2006. Your name
attached to ticket number 219028657434 with serial number
918735625drew the lucky numbers of 21-70-81-82-99
which consequently won the lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of
£2,500,000.00 (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS) in cash
which is deposited with a Bank in your
favour as beneficiary and covered with HIGH INSURANCE POLICY

Due to mix up of some numbers and names and for the sake of impostors, we ask that you
keep your winning information 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 by some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies
and 3,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over
the world.

To begin your lottery claim, please contact our agent below that
have been appointed for the processing of your claim with your
contact telephone and fax number to begin the processing of your
claim:

CONTACT NAME: MR PETER FORD
CITY/ COUNTRY: London, United kingdom
TEL: 44-704-011-9990 FAX: 44-707-575-7401
Email: peterford@luckydaylottery.org

Note that all winners must claim there win not later than Two weeks after the receipt of this message. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next
stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications
please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers
in all correspondence.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Mr. Hudson Camberwell
Promotions Manager.

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