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

Fraud email example:

From: Fairy Goodman <fairygd@di-ve.com>
Reply-To: lottolnd@di-ve.com
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 10:42:59 +0100
Subject: Winning Result


UK-LOTTO HEADQUARTERS:
national lottery commission
2nd floor,101 wigmore street, london, W1U1QU.
Customer Service
Ref:UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the U.K. - National Lottery International programs. Your e-mail address attached to The promotion is sponsored and promoted by Global Software Group. We hope you will use part of it in our next draws; the jackpot winning is $5,143,983.81. Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 30 days of this draw. After this date all unclaimed cash prize will be forfeited and included in the next sweepstake. Please, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote your winning numbers in all correspondence with us.
Congratulations once again from all members of the U.K. - National Lottery International programs. Thank you for being part of our promotional program. For immediate release of your cash prize to you, please kindly contact our processing Department with the following information for onward forwarding to the paying Bank: You are therefore advised to contact the Online coordinator,U.K. National Lottery in the person of:
Mr.Ryan Chapelle
via Email: lottolnd@yahoo.com
Congratulations once again.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Fairy Goodman
(Lottery Coordinator).

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