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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!

Fraud email example:

From: Toski Puler <toskipuler@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 23:42:03 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Dear Winner



Uk National Lottery Processing and Claims Dept.

Ref: BTL/491OXI/0
Batch: 12/25/0304
Winning #4582

Dear Winner,

Am in the receipt of your mail.

You wrote we should post all proofs relating to your winnings to your house address. All document has being forwarded to the bank in regards the remittance of your lottery prize to you. At this point all what you should do now is to get your lottery prize from the bank.
They have told you what to do, We conduct draws every week, and winners emerge every week, you should be fast with the processes because am always very busy attending to winners claiming their prize.

You should contact the bank and open the account, so that they can deposit it into your account you have opened with them, and after that you can transfer your lottery prize in your account you open with Natwest bank plc thereafter you can transfer the funds online into your private account.

Thanks,
Toski Puler


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