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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "22 garden close, stamford" (address often used in fake lottery scams)
  • "the bmw automobile company" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "transfer of your funds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +447011141306 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447075209542 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447045709571 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?BMW=A9_GROUP_LTD?= <claims-dept@bmw-groupltd.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:34:03 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! PRIZE CLAIMS APPROVED (PLEASE PROCEED WITH
INSTRUCTIONS.)









THE INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTION DEPARTMENT OF THE BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY.22 Garden Close, Stamford lincs,
PE9 2YP, London.United Kingdom.

Good Day Mr Adim Obinkwo,

Reference Number: BMW: 2551256003/23 secret pin code: x7pwyz2007.
It is with great pleasure that we announce you today, after all necessary verifications done by our review commitee on the personal details that were sent to us, as one of our lucky winners of the last sweepstakes held by the BMW Group here in the UK. The Lottery is operated solely by the BMW Group Uk , this is to encourage our prominent BMW automobile users all over the world, to encourage users to Continue the use of our wide range of luxurious automobiles and also non users to try and use our products.


Your email address was randomly selected along with others from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from our computerized e-mail genrating resource which is collected from all countries around the world. No tickets were sold but a ticket number was attached to each email address and your email address tagged with TICKET NUMBER: 653-908-321-675, and SERIAL NUMBER: 345-790-241-671 emerged as the star ticket email. This makes you therefore, the proud winner of a cash prize of £950,000.00 (Nine Hundred And Fifty Thousand great British Pounds Sterlings). We do hope that your prize will be put to use for the good cause.



To claim your prize, you are to contact our affiliate bank (BARCLAYS BANK PLC©) put a call through to the bank's representative (details below) stating that you have a transaction with account no: 475899076839 from the BMW company, also informing them that you will be convenient using their secured services for the claims/transfer of your funds to you.

BANK CONTACT DETAILS:

Dr.David Morgan
(HEAD OF INTERNATION REMMITANCE DEPT.)BARCLAYS BANK PLC© UNITED KINGDOM.1 Churchill Place,London E14 5HP.United Kingdom.

E-mail: account-unit@barclays-ebank.com

Tel: +44 7011141306 (Office Mobile)
:+44 704 570 9571 (Office phone) : +44 703 190 6143 (Direct Line)
Fax: +44-7075-209-542



Contact the bank immediately, requesting that you be given full details on the modalities involved, and instructions on how they can assist you with the transfer.

NOTE: All prizes will be nullified within 14 working days if they remain unclaimed by you, it will be deemed authoumatically forfieted by you and will be withdrawn immediately by the lottery board to use in the next edition of our upcoming promotion.

IMPORTANT; All winning informations should be kept very CONFIDENTIAL until you have succesfully claimed your prize in what ever means you fit deem, this is a precautionary measure put in place to aviod misapropriation of these funds and also to aviod cases double claims.

Congratulations once more from members of staff BMW GROUP© UK.
sincerely,


Richard Marks - Lottery fudiciary Agent.
BMW Group UK.
London, United Kingdom.



The Lottery Promotion is solely sponsored by the BMW Group UK 22 Garden Close, Stamford Lincs, PE9 2YP London Registered in England No. 2822567.
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