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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.
  • operations_manager_desk@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: john frank <john_dvus@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:27:50 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!


THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
105b WOODHILL ROAD WOOLWICH SE18 5HW
LONDON
www.freelotto.com

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky
winners in the FreeLotto draw held on the 15th of
Jan 21007. All 10 winning addresses were randomly
selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international
emails.Your email address emerged alongside 9 others
as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual
FreeLotto Draw.
Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a
total pay out of 1.5 000,000 euros
only.The following particulars are attached to your
lotto payment order:
(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK
Please contact the underlisted operations manager
as soon as possible for the immediate release of your
winnings:
Mr.Scott Williams
The Freelotto Company
TEL: 44 7040113017
Fax:44-870-129-9859
operations_manager_desk@yahoo.co.uk
Please note the steps to claim your prize;
1.Please quote your Reference number in all
correspondence
with the operations manager.
2.Winners must send thier names,address,telephone
number and means of identification (international passport or drivers licence)to the operations manager to process immediate payment of their prize.
3.And due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we
ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this programme.
Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

Steven Peter
Chairman & CEO
The freelotto company
UK & Europe


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