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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)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million british pounds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • lotterylinkagent@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "NATIONAL LOTTERY" <wakosusu@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: lotterylinkagent@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:09:21 +0800
Subject: CONFIRM WHO IS THE REAL OWNER

NATIONAL LOTTERY TO LOTTERY ONLINE GAME 2007
FROM: THE DESK OF THE EXECUTIVES DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT
UK ONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK.
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!
UKONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration F720633Y).
The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL . (Customer Services)
www.lottery2lottery.com <http://www.lottery2lottery.com/> REF NO.: EGS/2251256003/05 BATCH NO>; 14/0017/1PD WINNING NOTIFICATION National Lottery wishes to inform you the results of E-mail Ballot Lottery International Program by Great Britain held on 2th April 2007 for UK citizen and non UK citizen. Your email account has been picked amongst winners. You have therefore been approved to claim two hundred and fifty thousand British Pound Sterling (?250,000.00) only. This is from a total cash price of fifty million British Pounds Sterling (?50,000,000.00) shared amongst the first two hundred (200) lucky winners. This result is now release on this date of 12th April 2007 and your email address attached in the category (A). All participant were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from companies and individual email addresses and your lucky number are as follows Bonus , this promotion takes place annuall
y and it is sponsor by Bill Gates of Microsoft and his associates to encourage the use of internet and computers world wide. Please be aware that documents submission and further requirement would be asked by payment bank order that your fund be transfer to your nominated bank account as required by UK law. Also we like to inform that this program is a worldwide promotion undertaken/sponsored by many organizations,firms and corporate bodies and individuals chief amongst whom is Mr Bill Gates of Microsoft Corporation;the computer and software giant based in the US to largely promote the use of the Internet and computers on a global scale.And the government of the UK directly through other governmental bodies/agencies saddled with this social responsibility.It is organized in;and directed from the UK but it has a worldwide appeal.That is to say it gets its pre-participants drawn from a worldwide data base;not restricted to any one country.There is no data base where winners must be log
ged because this program pre-supposes that anyone with an email account should be equally stand a chance of being by rewarded as s/he is using computers and/ or the Internet.It is only when winning funds have been claimed by winners that we as a body can now use your details (if we feel like) to advertise or for publishing purposes as this is a social program whereby companies and individual industrialists who have profited from the world as a community want to pay back to community as well.
However,it is the responsibility of this office to forward your details to the payment bank as issues relating to payments are handled by our participating Bank No.1 Churchill Place, London, E14 5HP. Barclays Bank PLC - once a winner has emerged.This is the financial institution saddled with the responsibilities of effecting all transactions relating to payments(prizes) to lucky winners.
Let it be said also that this is a revolving program that has been institutionalized and as such it is done on an annual basis. Participants or intended participants or willing participants don't know their status beforehand.In-fact there is no such thing or status of a participant as winning information/details only get revealed after the draw has been made and lucky email accounts picked.This is because the nature of the program's selection of winners is done through an electronic/computer ballot systems drawn from individual,company,organization and and related bodies who have at least one current and valid email account address as at the time the draws were fixed.
Yours,like any other few successful winners was picked purely on the basis of this electronic balloting which is 100% a feature of chance.That is why winners are not pre-deter-minded or interested parties or individuals are not consulted or asked to apply as is the case with other lottery organizations/undertakings operating worldwide.
Your contact is just selected randomly from a data base of information.So any one picked at a year has little or no chances of been picked again in subsequent balloting. It is this my responsibility and indeed the responsibility of my office to inform you that a particular email account just like yours has been picked amongst the few lucky winners. Subsequently I can only advise that you do comply with the paying bank so that your winning fund is remitted to you as funds not claimed 30 days after claims have been filed may be forfeited.This is part of the provisions of this program as it is a revolving program. you don't have to face difficulties with regards to claiming your funds once you have filed for claims.However it the both the lottery and paying bank standing policy that serious verification exercise of the winner's true identity must be carried out to ensure that it is only the true winners that eventually get this money remitted to their account anywhere s/he chooses.There have be
en instances where people who have secretly got information related to a winner now forward those data to this agency via bank and collected monies meant for bonafide winners.There also have been other cases of complications of other nature directly or indirectly arising as a result of proper verification of true identity of winners not strictly done.All this combined to take a toll on the operation and image/reputation of the lottery agency.In order to safe-guide against future occurrences,the board of the lottery agency,in collaboration with the paying bank decided to review the basic procedures through which winners could get their funds without recourse to untold difficulty.In other words with minimum inconvenience.This is why you are needed in the UK or you send;among other documents that we will require and Obtain the others from a known law firm CHAMBER OF ANTHONY BERRY Q.C Chambers Address:9 Bedford Row London WC1R 4AZ
<http://www.9bedfordrow.co.uk/> , an affidavit - attesting your true identity - and which must be obtained from a British High Court via a seasoned legal practitioner (lawyers/attorneys) which would act as evidence to bear testimony that you are indeed the true winner.
Lawyers are articulate people because they always use their instincts/intellect to safeguard against untoward occurrences as they themselves stand to be sued should they not play their role well and winning funds is claimed by a third party and one who is not a legal winner.This is why the lawyer might ask you to bring certain documents or do some consultations just so that s/he verifies the authenticity and validity of your statement of claims as evidenced by your documents.
I hope I have done or given you basic background information by this mail. All winner are advice to keep winning information confidential until claim has been processed and money remitted to winners. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claming and unwarranted abuse of this program, for the release of your winning amount, confirm to us the receipt of this notice, to enable us submit you file to our paying bank, for processing and releasing of your fund. All winning must be claimed not later than 14Th May 2007 . After this date all unclaimed fund will be returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence. To file for your claim: PLEASE FILLOUT THE VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM 1. FULL NAMES: ______________________________________________
______________________________________________________ _________________________ 2. ADDRESS: _______________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. STATE: _________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________
_________ 4. COUNTRY_________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. E-MAIL ADDRESS: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________ 6. TELEPHONE NUMBER: ____________________________________________________________
________________________________________ _________________ 7. FAX NUMBER: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ 8. SEX: ___________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. AGE: _________5F_________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. MARITAL STATUS: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ 11. OCCUPATION: _________________________________________________________________________________
___________________ ________________________ 12. ANNUAL INCOME: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ 13. REF NUMBER_____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. BATCH NUMBER: ______________________________5F_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________ 15. AMOUNT WON: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. SCAN PASPORT/ID CARD COPY_______________________________________________ ___________________ FORWARD YOUR CLAIM INFORMATION TO BELOW EMAIL ADDRESS:lotterylinkagent@yahoo.com Congratulation from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program, our special th
anks and gratitude to Bill Gates of Microsoft and all his associates Yours sincerely, Dr. Henry Hills (National Lottery Intl.) The National Lottery PO Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL www.lottery2lottery.com <http://www.lottery2lottery.com/>. Dr. Angel Carlos (Manager Foreign operation), Mrs.Liza Ben (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Mr. James cole (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Anna James (Executive), Dr.Henry Hills (Executive), Mr. Michael Smith (Chairman) THIS YEAR WINNERS OF NATIONAL LOTTERY EMAIL ADDRESS LOTTERY PROGRAM Copyright ?1994-2007 The National Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline 77635 476378 255667460 Please be informed that the following listed Country have been banned from participating in the lottery. Vietnam, Iraq, Venezuela and North Korea if you are a resident of the listed country you cannot file claims for
this lottery prize. Please delete this Notification, as your prize processing will be annulled without notice

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