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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.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• 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.
  • info.ilwestafricaregionoffice@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "INTERNATIONAL LOTERRY WEST AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE." <info.ilwestafricaregionoffice@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:43 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION (FINAL NOTICE).



Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:54:09 +0200
From: THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Subject: Winning Notification {FINAL NOTICE}


THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O Box 287 WATFORD,
WD18 9TT
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
www.national-lottery.co.uk
FROM: UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER
BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner Mr. Fr Winifrid Schweitzder
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programmes. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 100 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the Internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A" with the following winning information:
REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937
BATCH No: 2006MJL-01
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 8 - 15 - 17 - 40 - 43 - 48 - 21
You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of £750,000.000 Pounds ( seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds only) each from the total payout.
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information below:
To file your claim, please contact the processing agent;
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY WEST AFRICAN REGIONAL OFFICE.
REPUBLIC OF COTE D'IVOIRE
WEST AFRICA.
MR. WILLIAMS SHEBA.
TELL: 225 0115 8513 / Fax:00 225 2124 5934
EMAIL: info.ilwestafricaregionoffice@yahoo.fr
NOTE: You are also required to indicate what means you would prefer your winning remitted to you, either:
1. Your winner cheque couriered to you
2. You receive your winning by telegraphic transfer from our associate bank to your bank account.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).
Anybody under the age of 16 and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this programme.
Please note;
You are hereby advice to send us the following;
1. Your full name and address
2. Your personal phone and fax number, and
3. Your winning numbers.
4. Your Occupation and Age
5. Your Nationality and Country
6. Amount won
7. Date received
Reply to this confidential email account: info.ilwestafricaregionoffice@yahoo.fr
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional programme.
Sincerely,
Ms. Susan Anderson.
for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
NOTE: You are to contact your claims officer immediately.
TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE,
Simply contact our claims agent,
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY WEST AFRICAN REGIONAL OFFICE.
REPUBLIC OF COTE D'IVOIRE
WEST AFRICA.
MR. WILLIAMS SHEBA.
TELL: 225 0115 8513 / Fax:00 225 2124 5934
EMAIL: info.ilwestafricaregionoffice@yahoo.fr
to file your claim .
Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this
notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number as to help us locate your file easily.
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim
is processed and your prize released to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of UKNATIONAL LOTTERY Cooperation to all our lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery programme.
Kind Regards,
Interactive Customer Care




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