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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS MARY ANDERS" <notice_claims_desk4@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:59:53 +0000
Subject: COMGRATULATION (YOU ARE A LUCKY WINNER)

           BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY

 

 

U.K National Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON

REF Nº: EGS/2251/02                                                                     
BATCH Nº:14/00/1PD
Date:8/09/06
      FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

 

                         AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE

   U.K National Lottrey wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held Your email account have been picked as a winner of ONE MILLION TWO HURNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS (£1,250,000). This results is now released to you on 08/09/06.  All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place bianually i.e twice in a year. U.K National lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). This promotional lottery is the tenth of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

 

 All winning must be claimed not later than eight working days of this notification. After this time all unclaimed funds will be retured to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

Be advice to 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,For the release of your winning,kindly contact the VERIFICATION UNIT in National Lottery Head Quarters via email,with Email Adress: verification_unit01@excite.com

and apply for the relaese of your winnings,with the below informations.

REF Nº: EGS/2251/02                                                                     
BATCH Nº:14/00/1PD

 

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program.
Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International funds Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).MRS JULIE VAN HANS (VICE PRESIDENT)

Accept my hearty congratulations once again
Mrs. Mary Anders
Zonal Coordinator 

Yours Sincerely,

                                              

                                     

U.K National Lottery.

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.

 

 Past winners round the world with full of excitment
      

                                       

Yours faithfully,

GREG STEWART (Mr.)

Director.International Promotions Unit,

 

                                                                 
          

 

                 Copyright © 1994-2006 The British International Promotion Inc.
                             All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline

                                     
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