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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 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.
  • @yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr Raymond Brock" <drraymond_ntfuklto024@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: cliamsdepartment_ukloto@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:43:02 +0000
Subject: WINNINGS NOTIFICATION

              UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

UK-LOTTO HEADQUARTERS:
45 ELMDENE RD WOOLICH,
SE 16 TZ,UNITED-KINGDOM.
05-09-2006
Customer Service
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

                               WINNING NOTIFICATION:

Dear Prize Winner

This is to inform you that your email address has won the british lottery which was held on 2nd of September 2006. your email with serial number 5368/05 and ticket number 5647 5600545 188 hit the jackpot .
  

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £867,454.00 (  EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR BRITISH POUNDS ) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/003. This is from a total cash prize of £5,100,000 (FIVE MILLION ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS) Million pounds shared among the first six(6) lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected randomly  from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000  companies.

 

This promotion takes place annually please note that your lucky winning number fall within our European booklet representative office in Europe as  indicated in your play coupon.In view of this, your ₤867,454.00  {EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR BRITISH POUNDS} would be released to you by our payment  office in europe.Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate  the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

In the 2nd category.you are advised to keep this notice to yourself because of individuals who may divert your winnings to theirs and they also use our company to deceive others.you are advised to report back by means of email to the cliams agent Dr Raymond Brock at

 

 claimsdepartment_ukloto@yahoo.co.uk within 72hours of reading this mail.        

         

Sincerely,

SIR.SPENCER PHILIP
Online Coordinator.
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sweepstakes International Program.

You must be 16 or over to play or claim a prize
                                                                   

The Lottery Company and lottery.co.uk is in no way affiliated with, associated with or approved or endorsed by Camelot Group plc or The National Lottery Commission.
                          

Material Copyright © 2006 The Lottery Co. Ltd. •

 

 

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