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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 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.
  • +447005978460 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Professor Rosemary Clark" <prof.rclark28@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:17:43 +0000
Subject: Dear Anthony K.

Office of Prize Administration
Greenwich Prize Promotions INC.
33 stockport road,longsight
Manchester,United Kingdom.
TEL: +44 700 597 8460
FAX: +44 700 597 8463
DATE: 09/29/2006

FROM: Prof.(Mrs) Rosemary Clark, Prize Administrator


ATTENTION:ANTHONY K.

Reference Number:2006234522
Pin Number :6520



Pursuant to our annual lottery draws,concluded on
September 2006 we are pleased to inform you, that your e-mail address
attached to
ticket number; 27522465896-532 with serial number 652-662 drew lucky
numbers7-14-18-23-31-45
which consequently won in the final category.
You are one of the winners and therefore have been approved for a lump sum
pay out of 845,000.00 GBP (Eight Hundred and Forty Five Thousand GREAT
BRITAIN POUNDS).
please find below ,a list of recent and pending winners as well as their
respective
winning status.

FIRSTNAME LASTNAME COUNTRY AMOUNT STATUS
Reginald F. France 1,000,000 paid
Maureen Bentley USA. 845,000.00 paid
Dr.Philips Mark Eng. 100,000 pending
John Jackson nil. 30,000. PAID
Marie Church Norway 1,000,000 pending
Stewart G. Australia 1,000,000 paid
Anthony K. nil 845,000 pending
Micheal L. Eng 300,000 paid


All are in Great Briatin Pounds and all participants in this lottery program
have been selected randomly
through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 companies and
30,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engines and websites.

This promotional program takes place every year, and is promoted and
sponsored by many corporate organizations.

For security purposes and clarity, we advise that you keep your winning
information confidential until your claims have been processed and your
money remitted to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims and unwarranted
abuse of this program as we shall not be held

responsible for any false claim.

You are requested to contact our clearance agent, Reverend Albert Terry on
revtalbert@walla.com
immediately to assist you with your winnings and subsequent payments.
All winnings must be claimed not later than 22 days from the date of this
notice.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
remember to quote your reference number and PIN in all correspondence.

Your's Faithfully,
Prof.(Mrs) Rosemary Clark
(Prize Administrator)

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