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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 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.
  • +447045715852 (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.
  • claimsagent_office00@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Mary Peter" <mrs.mary_peter7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: claimsagent_office00@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:40:45 -0500
Subject: British Lottery International

British Lottery International.
Headquarters: 60 Merriman Road. Blackheath London SE3 8RZ England.

Ref. Number: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch Number: 12/25/0304
Ticket Number: 564 75600545-188
Serial Number: 5388/02

Attn: Winner!!!,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Winners in our
British International Lottery Program held on the 13TH of APRIL
2007.Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number 564 75600545-188 with serial
number 5388/02 drew lucky numbers 7-14-18-31-45, which consequently won
in the 2ND category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum
pay
out of GBP2,500,000
(Two Million,five hundred thousand GBP).

CONGRATULATIONS!

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your
winning information confidential until your claims have been fully
processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid multiple claims and unwarranted abuse of this program
by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from over 20,000 company and 30,000,000 individual
email addresses and names from all over the world.

This promotional program takes place every five years. This lottery
was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational
companies in Europe as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

We hope with part of your winnings you will take part in our next year
Ten million Euros international lottery. To file for your claim, please
contact our director of finance.

****************************************************
Mr.Smith Vanderpool
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order
Department,UK NATIOANL CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT.
OCEANIC BT, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Email: claimsagent_office00@yahoo.com
Telephone:+447045715852

******************************************************

Endeavour to email them the following informations for immediate
processing, verification and legalization of claims inorder for payment
to be made to you as required, inaccordance with our payout policy.

Full! Name:
Age:
Country:
Marital Status:
Occupation:
Telephone:
Mobile:
Amount Won:
REF NUMBER:.
BATCH NUMBER:
WINNING NUMBER:
TICKET.NUMBER:

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE BRITISH(UK)
NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully
Mary Peter (Mrs)
Online Coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY

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