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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.
• 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.
  • paycenteroffice@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Lottery UK Internationa <ukintlotto@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: paycenteroffice@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:16:00 -0700
Subject: Lottery UK International




Dear Lucky Winner,


We are pleased to inform you of the result of the winners of the Lottery UK

International programme held on the 30th July 2006, Your email address was attached

to Ticket No: 99/bnk/633, and Reference Number:708,ZX,11,665/UK which drew lucky

numbers-03,18,31,33,38,48 and serial number 018/289/06, which consequently won in

the 3rd category.


You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of £1,500,000.00 GPB (One

million Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds sterling) in cash credit. This is

from a total cash prize of £7,5000,000.00 GBP(Seven million, five hundred thousand

Great Britain Pounds sterling)shared among the ten(10) international winners in this

category.


CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning

information confidential until your claims have been processed and your winning

remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and

unwarranted abuse of this program by some unlucky participants .


All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over

20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all Asia,

Africa, Europe, North and South America and the Oceania. This promotional programme

takes place once every year, after the yearly national lotto have made their profit

from the previous year’s national draws .


To file for your winning please contact our payment center agent Mr. David Brimley,

at (paycenteroffice@yahoo.co.uk )


All correspondence should be directed to this payment center. Remember all winning

must be claimed not later than twp weeks from this notice as unclaimed funds will be

included in the next year's stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays

and complications please remember to quote your winning information in all

correspondence to the pay center office


Furthermore, should there be any change of address do not hesitate to inform the pay

center office agent as soon as possible. Congratulations from our members of staff,

and thank you for been part of our promotional lucky program.


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

NOT RESPOND TO THIS MAIL.KINDLY CONTACT YOUR SPECIFIED AGENT FOR YOUR

WINNINGS.***************


Sincerely yours,
Sharon Smith
Lotto Co-ordinator
Lottery UK International

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