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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (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.
  • +448715035016 (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.
  • bbpromoawrdteam@aol.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Big Brother Award Team <bb-awardteam@web.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:08:56 +0200
Subject: {Disarmed} ATTN: WINNER! WINNER!! WINNER!!!




Big Brother Award Team
15 Pratt Mews,London NW1 OAdUnited Kingdom. PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of The Big Brother international Lottery programmes.The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 10,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the Internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A" with the following winning information:
REF No: BBA-L/200-26937
BATCH No: 2007MJL-01
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 8 - 12 - 13 - 19 - 26 - 38 - 11http://www.gamesys.co.uk/upload/celebbigbrother/ [http://www.gamesys.co.uk/upload/celebbigbrother/]
You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of £850,000.000 Pounds ( eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds only) each from the total payout.
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited fiduciary agent for category "A" winners with the information below: Name (in Full) :Country: Address:Direct Telephone No.:Age:Sex:Occupation/positionTicket Number:Serial Number:
FIDUCIARY AGENT DETAILS Name: MR RUSSELL BRANDPhone:+44-871-503-5016Email:bbpromoawrdteam@aol.co.uk Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this
notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number as to help us locate your file easily.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim
is processed and your prize released to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Congratulations once more from the entire Management and Staff of BIG BROTHER.Co-operation to all our lucky winners this year.
Kind Regards,
DERMOT 'O' LEARY




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