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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.
  • snlprocdept@fsmail.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Laura baffa" <notify@scottish-national-lottery.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:58:21 -1000
Subject: Winning Notification ( Contact Steve Bowen)

SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O Box 2450 South Bridge,
E70 3NL Edinburgh.
Scotland
UNITED KINGDOM.

DATE: 12-04-2007


Dear Winner,


We are please to announce you as one of the 4 lucky winners in the
SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY draw (#906) held 10am (GMT) 1st April 2007
here in Scotland United Kingdom, Your e-mail address attached to
email-ticket number :( 978118355Z9), with serial number 9241/08,
drew the lucky numbers (03)- (50)-(21)-(17)-(11)-(41) bonus (03)
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1ST category in this month's
draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out amount
of GBP £523,000 Pounds ( Five Hundred And Twenty Three Thousand Great
British Pounds Sterling) only.

YOUR WINNING REFERENCE: UK-EG/8869G1/988

WINNING BATCH: EG67/298/06

This is from a total cash prize of GBP2092.000.00 shared amongst the
first four (4) lucky winners in this category. All 4 lucky winning
addresses were randomly selected from World Wide Web sites through
Computer ballot system extracted from over 100,000 international
emails, unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.
This
promotion takes place monthly. In view of this, your GBP 523,000 Pounds
( Five Hundred And Twenty Three Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling)
will be
released to you as soon as you contact our Claims Department Manager . He
will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your
funds as soon as you contact him.


Please contact our Claims Department Manager under listed to
file for your claim. He will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact
him

Mr. Steve Bowen
Claims Department Manager
SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY U.K
Email: snlprocdept@fsmail.net

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
Confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part
of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse
of
this program. Please be warned. BEWARE there’s no obligation's or fees to
the
Lottery Company in claiming your lottery winnings.

Good luck from me and members of staff of THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY.


Yours faithfully,
Laura baffa.
FOR MANAGEMENT


THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY Awards is proudly sponsored
by financial Corp's the evergreen group and a conglomeration of other
international IT companies. THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
internet draw is held monthly, and is organized to encourage the use of
the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200
Million Pounds are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.


No Purchase Necessary. Copyrights 2007 Scottish National lottery.

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