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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 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.
  • uk.glotto2007@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "BRITISH G-LOTTERY UK" <uk.glotto207@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:13:53 +0100
Subject: GOOGLE LOTTERY ( Winning Notification ).


[image: Google]
*Dear Lucky winner * *,*
**
*Permit me to start this mail by congratulating you as one of our monthly
lucky winners for June 2007 google e-lotto promotions. *
*
In a bid to unify email services offered by all email giants, Google came
out with its internet user rewarding promotions aimed at improving the lots
of all email users. The May winnings was spectacular as many email users
were selected at random by e-balloting software.

Due to high turnover for the past month, the winnings were quite awesome
with our highest winner going home a whooping sum of One hundred and Seventy
Five Thousand Pounds. That was the highest winning since the inception of
the e-lottery promotion by Google.
* *
You are being notified because your email address was selected randomly by
the e-balloter. Your prize winnings stands at Seventy Thousand Pounds. (£
75,000GBP) This amount is subject to change with time depending on the
number of winners claims recieved by the claims depart of Google E-lotto. *
**
*Below are your winning details;
Winning Batch Number: GIL/96/05/07
Reference Number: GIL/UK/ID/05607
Pin: 4791
Winning amount:Seventy Five thousand pounds. (£75,000 GBP)*

*To proceed with your claims, Send your response to the Google Group
Lottery Department Worldwide.*

*Winning Batch Number: GIL/96/05/07
Reference Number: GIL/UK/ID/05607
Pin: 4791*

*Winning amount: Seventy Five Thousand Pounds (£75,000 GBP)*, To proceed
with your claims, contact Send your response which include your name.
*
Contact the Google Claim Department through ( ** uk.glotto2007@gmail.com* )*
. *
*[image: The image] *
*Once More, Accept my congratulations. *
*CONGRATULATION
BRITISH GOOGLE WORLD*

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