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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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 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.
  • rsuk_fdm_martin_c_g_22@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ROYAL HOUSE UK. Promotion Department"
<mrrichardcolemurphyjr_.81@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 23:59:18 +0000
Subject: ROYAL HOUSE UK.





ROYAL HOUSE UK.WORCESTER, HEREFORD & WORCESTER,WR1 1JT, UNITED KINGDOM.FAX: +-4-4-7-0-0-5-9-8-1-5-4-8From: Mr. Richard Cole Murphy Jr. (Promotion Department) Dear Sir/Madam, We are please to announce you as one of the 3 lucky winners in the Royal house uk lottery Ballot Draws. All 3 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 30,000 email addresses . Your email address emerged alongside 2 others under our promotional B draws. Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of £2,800,000 Pounds (Two Million, eight hundred thousand pounds). The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order: (i) Winning numbers: 10,18,00,34,49,(60)(ii) Email ticket number: 32-17-431(iii) Reference Number: RHUK/07/UKE321(iv) International Lottery Code Number: RHUK/004-BT To commence processing of your winnings/transfer of winning sum, you must forward a copy of this email to our Claims Department. contact details below, for further information, and immediate processing and release of your winning sum.Contact the cliams department with the following: Director (Cliams Department)Mr. Martin GieriREALITY SECURITY UK,WARWICKSHIRE CV37 6JFLONDON UK.FAX: +-4-4-7-0-0-5-9-3-0-6-1-5TEL: +-4-4-7-0-2-4-0-9-1-0-6-1TEL: +-4-4-7-0-4-0-1-1-7-5-4-1E-mail: rsuk_fdm_martin_c_g_22@yahoo.co.uk Congratulations once again.N.B: All claims are nullified after 10 working days from today. Regards,Mr. Richard Cole Murphy Jr.ROYAL HOUSE UK.--------------------------------------------------------------If you have received this email, it mean you are one of the recent winners from our random lottery ballot system draws, however, if you feel you have been selected in error please visit the link below to unsubscribe from our selected winners list. http://eu-nationallot.s5.com/claimsdepart/unsubscrib.htmlNote: Please do not reply to this e- mail. Mail sent to this email address cannot be answered. For assistance, contact your claims Department. --------------------------------------------------------------
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