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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:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +447011148083 (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.
  • uknl_martinbrown@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Kimeberly Dulle" <kdulle10@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: uknl_martinbrown@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:13:40 -0600
Subject: UK NATIONAL GAMING BOARD

NATIONAL LOTTERY,
ONLINE SWEEPSTAKES
Claims Department
12 Bridge Street,
Staines Middlesex TW18 4TP
United Kingdom.
Phone:+447011148083
Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/04
Batch: R3/A312-59
 
                            WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today there  winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO
PROGRAMME, held  Today  13  friday 2007.Your ticket number
023-1111-790-458 attached to your email address, with serial number
5073-12 drew the lucky numbers 05-11-12-16-17-45-42(bonus no.42),this lucky
number subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have
therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £643,206( six Hundred And
Fourty Three thousand Two Hundred And Six pounds sterling) in cash credited
to file KTU/9023118308/03.
 
All participants of this online promotion programme were selected
randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from close to 125,000 unions, associations and corporate
bodies listed online. This promotion takes place Quarterly.
 
To file for your claim, please contact our fudiciary agent
Mr Martin Brown.
Email: uknl_martinbrown@yahoo.co.uk
Phone Number:(+44)-701-1148-083
 
Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours Truly,
Mrs Kimberly Dulle
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme).

   

 

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