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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:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: national lottery national lottery <department_customer_services_uk@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:40:53 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: GET BACK TO US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE


Dear Winner,

We appreciate your effort in replying back to the department for the winning.If you read the mail sent to you for the notification of your winning,it is specified that all participants for the online version were selected randomly World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100 000 unions associations and corporate bodies that are listed on line.

This promotion takes place weekly all over europe,and it is unfortunate the your e-mail address came up as the winner of this our great free uk national lottery.

The form sent to you from the UK NATIONAL BOARD OF LOTTERY was not filled,you are to filled the form for the necessary transfer of you funds to your designated account in any country of your choice,we therefor insist that you fill the form,get back to us as soon as possible and contact the bank(transfer_onlineservice@enfieldcounty-bankplc.com )for the transfer of your winning funds with immediate effect.

Get back to us as soon as you filled the form that you are to send to the the bank.Once more congratulation.

Best Regard
The Department


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