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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447011138680 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • hillton_onlinepromo2006@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Hillton Online Promo" <hilltononlinepromo1@mail-online.dk>
Reply-To: hillton_onlinepromo2006@yahoo.es
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:26:17 +0100
Subject: YOUR E-MAIL WON HILLTON ONLINE PROMO!!!



FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
EUROPEAN PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
==============================
HILLTON INTERNATIONAL PROMO,
406 Bury New Rd,
Whitefield,
Manchester M45 7SX
U.K.
========================
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02
Batch: 12/25/0034
========================
BONANZA 2006!!!
========================


This is to Notify you of the release of Hillton International program
held on the 27th of October 2006 in London. Your e-mail address was
attached to ticket number: 564-75600545-188 with Serial number 5388/02
drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently won you the
lottery prize in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GBP£750,000.00
(Seven hundred and fifty thousand great britain pounds) in cash
credited to file C/9080118308/02. This is from a total cash prize of
GBP£15,000,000 Million pounds, shared amongst the first twenty (20)
lucky winners in this category.
This lottery was organized by an association of software manufacturers
who came together from all parts of europe including Great

Britain,Spain,The Netherlands and Belgium which are the major host
countries.All participants were selected through our Microsoft computer
ballot draw system, were we extracted over 20,000.00 companies and
3,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world.

This years Lottery Program Jackpot is the 2nd largest ever for the
Europian Lottery. The estimated £75 million jackpot would be the sixth-
biggest in the Europian history. The biggest was the £363 million
jackpot that went to two winners in a May 2000 drawing of The big game,
mega millions predecessor.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in UK as indicated in our play coupon. In
view of this, your GBP£750,000.00 (Seven hundred and fifty thousand
great britain pounds) would be released to you by our affiliate agent
payment center.

Note: That you are to respond to all the necessary procedure involved in
collecting your prize ,and ifyou are not interested in claiming your
prize,you are advised to draft this office your REFUSAL LETTER
indicating that you are not interested in your winning prize and it
should be used for the next stake.

Due to mix up of some names and winning number, we ask that you keep
your winning information confidential until your claim has been
processed and your money remittedto you, in your perspective country.
Because this ispart of our new security protocol to avoid double
claiming and forgery of winners identity in thisprogram by some
unscrupulous persons.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address doinform our agent as
soon as possible.

To begin your lottery claim, please contact yourFudiciary agent below
that has been appointed for the processing of your claim with the email
address below:

AGENCY HOUSE: Atlantico Groupo Seguidad S.A International
AGENT: Mr. David Anderson/Mrs. Kate Henshaw
Email: hillton_onlinepromo2006@yahoo.es
Tel: +447011138680
+447011138682
Fax: +447092882003

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays andcomplications please
remember to quote your WINNINGNUMBER in all correspondence.
Warning: All winners are to claim their winning prizein not later than 1
week (7 days) of their winningnotification.

Internet draw is held once in a year and it is organized, because we
want to encourage the use of Internet around the globe and we are
beginning this year with this $1,500,000.00 as it is like a WELCOME
TO 2006.

And we are proud to say that over 50 Million DOLLARS are won annually in
more than 150 countries worldwide

We wish you a hearthy congratulation once again.Thank you for being part
of our promotional lottery program.

Yours Sincerely,
Smith Carpenter.
AFRO-ASIAN Zonal Cordinator.
Hillton Promo International

NOTE: ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF ANY WINNER WILL
RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION!

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