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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 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.
  • +2348039475165 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • manager_haroldking@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "paul chigozie" <barr_paulcezebuike@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:37:29 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION ON YOUR WINNING

Office Of United Kingdom National Lottery
Dominions House,Lime Kiln Close
Stoke Gifford Bristol BS34 8SR
TEL: +2348039475165

WINNING INFORMATION
-------------------
REF:................. ASL/26510460037/03
BATCH:................01/019/07
SERIAL N0:............4708-325
B44:..................8056490902
Ticket Number:........64479543465
Lucky
Numbers:........4-13-33-37-42
Bonus Number:.........17009
WINNING NOTIFICATION
---------------------------
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release
on the 6th July, 2007 from the United Kingdom National
Lottery program Which is fully based on an electronic election of
winners using their e-mail addresses? Your email was attached Ticket
Number: 64479543465,B448056490902, Serial Number 4708-325 This batch draws
the , Bonus Number:17009, which consequently won the
lottery in the second category. You here by have been approved a lump sum
pay of $1,200,000 ( one million and two hundred thousand ) in cash Credit
File Ref Number : ILP/HW 7509/02 from the total cash prize
shared among eight lucky winners in this category.This Lottery was promoted
and sponsored by United Nation Lottery Foundation and the British Government
as part of social responsibility to alleviate poverty, and assist the
Individuals victims of the London Bomb
Blast and the Hurricane Katrina Disaster in United States of America. This
Program is under a strict supervision with British Government to see that
the purpose of transparency and decency is observed and to
avoid any unlawful manipulations it is drawn under a tight environment to
achieve the maximum result as all eyes are on the British Government for it
trusteeship in this lottery Scheme.All
participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from
Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from mainly
North America which Includes the UnitedStates,Mexico,Canada and Central
Europe, London, Spain, Africa and Asia,Oceania as part of our international
promotions program which is conducted annually. We
therefore advice every winner in this quarter to listen properly from the
advice from the Delivery agent so that they can discharge the duties
accordingly and expressly.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
---------------------------------
Simply contact our Affiliated Representative In
Nigeria
(Mr.Harold c King), who will direct you to how to
claim your prize with
the following Information via email :your name and
contact address:
Mr. Harold c King
TEL: +2348039475165
manager_haroldking@yahoo.com

You have to contact Mr.Harold c King With the
following information below:

# FULLNAME:................................
# SEX:.....................................
# ADDRESS:.................................
# COUNTRY:.................................
# FAX:.....................................
# PHONE NUMBER:............................
# OCCUPATION:..............................
# COMPANY'S NAME:..........................
# AGE:.....................................
# REF NUMBER:..............................
#
AMOUNT WON:..............................
To file for your claim. Please quote your Date of draw,reference
Number,Batch Number and Winning Number, which can be found on the top-left
cornerof this message. Also, you should give in your
telephone number to helplocate your file easily.For security reasons, we
advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the
publicuntil your claim is
processed and your prize has been released to you.This is part of
oursecurity protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarrantedtaking
advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note: All winnings MUST be claimed on or before Two
week;otherwise all
funds will be returned as ''Unclaimed'' and eventually
sent back to Treasury in our head office London.
Congratulations once again on your winning!
Best Regards.
Ms. Linna Calson
(Information Minister)
NOTE:To claim your prize contact
( Mr.Harold c King)
with your winning information.

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