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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:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • asiauknational2007@she.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Steven Wills" <asiauknational2007@she.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:10:58 +0700
Subject: NOTICE YOUR EMAIL ID HAVE WON A LOTTERY FROM ASIAUKNATIONAL .

Date: 19TH MARCH 2007,
REF N0: ZFN/22512567303/06
BATCH NO: 86056490902/204
WINNING NO:ASUK/33/36/45/12/06/LW

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
OF THE UK LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION

ATTENTION

The U.K National Lottery/International wishes to inform you of the
results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by the
United Kingdom lotto International promotions held on 29th June, 2006.
Your email account has been picked as a winner of NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED STATE DOLLARS ONLY ($900,000:00)
We happily announce to you the draw (#1046) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on the 1st July, 2006 in
NEWCASTLE UNITED-KINGDOM. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers :(
06, 09, 11, 33, 36,49and bonus ball 29) which subsequently won you the
lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus.
To file for your claim, contact our claims below with the following
information.

Dr. Steven Wills
Email:asiauknational2007@she.com

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email
account users for the promotion.

For your information, return a copy of this letter during your reply.

Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Steven Wills
Asia cordinator.
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