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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.
  • henry_hale15@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "British International" <bhli464433@rediffmail.com>
Date: 11 Dec 2006 16:24:35 -0000
Subject: REF NO: HLP/200-26937564-75600545-188


**********************************************************BRITISH HERITAGE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS UNITED KINGDOM. P.O Box 1103 Albury Street, Creek Road, Deptford, London SE8. Tel:+44(0)702 305 3577
**********************************************************BRITISH HERITAGE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS UNITED KINGDOM. P.O Box 1103 Albury Street, Creek Road, Deptford, London SE8. Tel:+44(0)702 305 3577 Fax:+44 (0)703 040 3567 ********************************************************** GAMBLING BOARD OF GREAT BRITAIN LICENSED. ONLINE BALLOT LOTTERY (Registration 70339411). REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT. ********************************************************** REF NO: HLP/200-26937564-75600545-188 BATCH: 2005MJL-01 (No Ticket Sold) ********************************************************** ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION. AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER:UNITED KINGDOM
Lucky winner,
We happily announce to you the draw of the HERITAGE MEGA JACKPOT LOTTERY WINNINGS PROGRAMS held on the 15th of November 2006 in London. Your e-mail address attached to Reference number:HLP/200-26937564-75600545-188 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£5,500,000.00 POUNDS (Five million five hundred thousand great britain pounds) in cash credited to file C/9080118308/06.
This is from a total cash prize of £ 27,500,000.00 POUNDS,shared among the five (5) international winners in this category of this years Lottery Program Jackpot as the 2nd largest ever for the European Lottery.
The estimated £75 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in the European history. The biggest was the £363 million ackpot 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£5,500,000.00 POUNDS (Five million five hundred thousand great britain pounds) would be released to you by our affiliate agent payment center in London.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him. All participants were selected randomly(Electronically Generated) from the \'World Wide Web\' site through a computer ballot system and extracted from over 100,000 company addresses. This promotion takes place annually.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning informations confidential till your claim is processed and your money transferred to a designated bank account of your choice. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.

ELIGIBILITY:
This promotion is offered electronically via the Internet and is open to all persons from age 18 years and above with a valid email address. Principals and employees of the Heritage Lottery International and its respective Parents, subsidiaries and their immediate families are not eligible to partake in his promotion.

CLAIMS PROCEDURES:
It is our standard practice to allocate agents for the processing of claims application. It is even more imperative for oversea winners. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised as a matter of urgency,You are to contact the underlisted officer by email for processing and remittance of your prize money to you.Your assigned claims officer contact informational is:

Name: Mr.Henry Hale Email:henry_hale15@yahoo.co.uk Tel:+44(0)701-113-8026

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 22nd December,2006. All funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be penalized accordingly.Do email the above email addresses from now on,you are to contact your assigned claims officer.
Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality,and press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.&nbsp;

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!At your disposal, we remain. Very Truly Yours,
Mrs.Sherrell Barber.

NOTE: It has come to our attention that fraudulent emails are being sent out from the united kingdom by some group of people. These emails are NOT from Heritage Lottery international Email-games .These emails may claim that the recipient has won a prize in Heritage Lottery International Email-games, the British Heritage Lottery International Email-games or some other non-existent international version of Heritage Lottery International Email-games.

These emails may include our name, our logo and links to a copy of an old Heritage Lottery International Email-games web page as we are working seriously to ensure security on our web page.In accordance with the Heritage Lottery International Email-games policy and regulations,this notification is dispatched directly to only the 5 lucky consolation prize Winners.

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