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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • +447040112339 (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.
  • peterwilliams_dutf@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DIANA UNIVERSAL TRUST FUND PROMO" <dianauniversaltrustfund_03@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: dianauniversaltrustfund_promo@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:45:42 +0000
Subject: DIANA UNIVERSAL TRUST FUND

Diana Universal Trust Fund
2B Hay's Lane
London
SE1 2HB - United Kingdom

Dear Sir/Madam,

AWARD NOTIFICATION:

We seize this opportunity to inform that you are one of the lucky
beneficiaries of the Estates of Late Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales.
Diana Frances Spencer was born on July 1, 1961 at Park House, the home her
parents rented on the royal family's estate at Sandringham. She died on
August 31, 1997 when her new-found love affair with Emad "Dodi" Fayed, the
son of billionaire businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed, was abruptly ended by a car
accident in Paris while fleeing from paparazzi.

In the announcement of the lucky winners for the prestigious PRINCESS DIANA
UNIVERSAL PROMO for this year 2007, your email address was attached to
ticket number 13-2316-5086-477; with serial number A025-09, which drew the
lucky numbers: 37-13-34-85-56-87 {Bonus Ball}, and which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category {match5 plus bonus}. You have already
been approved for a lump sum pay out of 2.5 Million GBP (Two million, Five
hundred thousand British Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file Ref No.
PDUP/67 AO916520567. This is from the yearly royalty received from the
British Parliament in furtherance of the objectives of the foundation.

All the winners in this category B have been assigned a specific financial
institution here in London for immediate payment of there winning via
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). This measure was adopted to reduce the risk
of double claim by unscrupulous individuals as experienced in recent times.

All the winners were exclusively selected through a computer-generated
ballot system which electronically picked the matching numbers; all
participants were drawn from 100,000 companies/individuals from Middle East,
Australia, New Zealand, America, Asia, Europe and North America. No ticket
was sold.

Your award prize of 2.5 Million GBP is currently on file with the financial
institution in UK as they await clearance from your assigned
fiduciary/claims agent to commence with the process of remitting your prize
winning to you. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we advise you
to keep your winning information confidential until your claim is processed
and the money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double-claiming or other unscrupulous acts by some disgruntled unlucky
participants of this program.

Please contact your Fiduciary/Claims agent with the information below for
further instructions on how to claim your prize.

Name: Peter Williams
Email: peterwilliams_dutf@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447040112339

Other numerous charity promotions that we currently execute can be found by
clicking on this link;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3664654.stm

At this juncture, we finally congratulate and welcome you into the happy
union of the friends and well-wishers of late Princess Diana, a woman of
distinction, who whether in good times and bad, she never lost her capacity
to smile and laugh, and inspired others with her warmth and kindness.

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.

Sincerely,

Rev. Tom Lee
Lotto Director
Diana Universal Trust Fund

NB: Please direct all enquiries and comments to the lottery Director through
any of the means as enumerated above.

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