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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:
  • "22 garden close, stamford" (address often used in fake lottery scams)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • ",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.
  • +447045730127 (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.
  • claimsoffice_7000@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: BRITISH ONLINE LOTTERY <boil_504@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <claimsoffice_7000@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 01:17:43 +0000
Subject: {Disarmed} EMAIL USER...................BENEFIT






BRITISH ONLINEBritish Online LotteryP. O. Box 4279
Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM(Customer Services)Ref: BOL/101OXI/02 Batch: 16/211/0374
1st August, 2007.
WINNING NOTIFICATION







We happily announce to you the draw (#954) of the British online Sweepstakes International program held on Monday 30th July, 2007 which was co-hosted by major domain providers like YAHOO ,HOTMAIL, and other well known domain providers, thereby giving every email user the legibility and opportunity to be randomly selected for the prize.

This means your email address registered you for the game.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: ((13)-(43)-(06)-(15)-(02)-(40)bonus # (09),which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £250,000 (Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file BOL/9023118308/03
This is from a total cash prize of £5,000,000 shared amongst the first Twenty (20) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £250,000 (Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our affiliated securities/couriers companies.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To begin the claiming process of your prize you are to
contact our accredited claims officer with the information
you shall find below:

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Dr. Carter Savage 22 Garden Close, Stamford ,Lincs , PE9 2YP , LondonUnited KingdomE-mail: claimsoffice_7000@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: +44 704 573 0127

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Provide him with these following details with which he will begin the processing of your winnings.


1.Name in full.2.Address.3.Nationality.4.Age.
5.Occupation.6.Phone/Fax.7.Present Country.8.Fax [optional].
9.Email address.
10.Sex.
11.Monthy Income.

BELOW ARE PHOTOS OF SOME OF OUR LAST YEAR's WINNERS























Good luck from me and members of staff of the BRITISH ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.



BELOW ARE THE SPONSORS OF THIS PROGRAM

OUR Executives:Mrs Steffan Lloyd (ORGANIZER), Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. Collin Powell (Director Online InternationalPromotions Unit), Dr Carter Savage (Fiduciary Agent), Mrs. Lyudmyla Marchukova(Regional Manager), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman), Mr.Lenn Figgs (Courier Department Officer).



*Winners under the age of 16 is automatically disqualified.

Yours faithfully, Mrs Steffan .K. Lloyds.Online coordinator for British ONLINEINTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.Sweepstakes International Program.
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