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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:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
  • "uk national lottery inc." (no such lottery exists)
• 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.
  • +447045731048 (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.
  • agentbruceharvey@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <claimdesk@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <agentbruceharvey@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:41:09 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!YOUR EMAIL HAS WON!!!!!!!!!!!








June 2007 Winner
The National Lottery P O Box 1010Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM(Customer Services)Ref: UK/9420X2/68Batch: 074/05/ZY369


WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#1179) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY online Sweepstakes International program this first quater of 2007 .It is now available for claims.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky (lotto) numbers: 08-11-21-32-35-42,--Bonus ball (#47)which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 6 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £850,000(Eight hundred and fifty thousand,pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.To file for your claim,


CONTACT OUR FIDUCIARY CLAIMS UNIT
United Kingdom Lottery MR. BRUCE HARVEY
DISPATCH OFFICER,
+44 70457 31048.

Email: agentbruceharvey@yahoo.com


You can go to our online result site to confirm your winnings
and also for verification of your winning numbers:www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do



Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.Yours faithfully,
Dr. Gary Moore.Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERYSweepstakes International Program.





© Copyright 1994-2007 The UK National Lottery Inc. All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline

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