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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.
  • statslottooffice@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jenet cox <jenet@jenetcox.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 22:02:21 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: THE UK AWARD LOTTERY NL


THE UK AWARD LOTTERY NL
10 NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE,
LONDON WSC2N 7BX,
UNITED KINGDOM
TEL: ++447-031-860-094
30-09-2006

Dear Mr/Miss/Sir

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Category "A" draws of THE UK AWARD LOTTERY NL. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged as a winner under the "A" Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced today the 30th of Sept, 2006. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 98,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.

Your e-mail address, attached to batch number 045-2436863/02, with winning number 028-372815/083, and file ref. number NB- OO3-04O1-012/W03 consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 900,000.00 ( Nine Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling), which is the winning payout for Category A winners.

This is from a total cash prize of (Ten Million Pounds Sterling) shared amongst the first Ten lucky winners in this category, in your best interest to avoid mix up of numbers and names, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts from Participant/nonparticipant of this program.Our european agent will immedaitely commence the process to faccilitate the release of your fund as soon as you contact her.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our european booklet representative office in europe as indicated in your play coupon, in view of this, your 900,000.00(Nine Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) will be released to you by any of our payment office in europe.To file your claim, please kindly contact our Internation Rmittance department.
Mr Leonald Godffery.
Email: statslottooffice@aim.com
Please kindly fill in the acttached form below for the immediate process of your winning prize.
1.FULL NAME.........................................7.TELEPHONE..........................................................
2.NATIONALITY......................................8.OCCUPATION........................................................
3.AGE/SEX.............................................9.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS..........................................
4.WINNING NUMBER.............................10.TOTAL AMOUNT WON..............................................
5.MARITAL STATUS..............................11.CONTACT ADDRESS................................................
6.BATCH NUMBER............................. 12.THE FILE REF NUMBER...........................................
Endeavour to E-mail or fax Mr leonald Godffery to commence the processing of your claim prize immediatelt. Congratulations once again the
members of staff THE UK AWARD LOTTERY NL
Yours Faithfully
Miss Jenet Cox (Tel:++447-031-860-094)
Online co-ordinator for THE UK AWARD LOTTERY NL Sweepstakes International Program.

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