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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:
  • "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.
  • +447045744707 (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.
  • eu_claimsoffices@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Amanda Collins <amancoll4@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <eu_claimsoffices@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:20:38 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION LETTER!!!




THE E-LOTTERY COMPANYUNITED KINGDOM OFFICEHOUSE 2468 SIR MORGAN WRIGHT AVENUELONDON. E7 9LWUNITED KINGDOM.
Email Ticket Number: EL754/22/76Lottery Code Number: EL09622UKRef Number: EL/04/736207147/UK AWARD WINNING PRIZE NOTIFICATIONDear Winner, We happily announce to you the draw (#1 ) of the E-Lottery (International Electronic Draw) programmes held on the 12th of August 2007. Your email address, attached to ticket number EL754/22/76, with ref number EL/04/736207147/UK , and consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a charity bonus of One Million Great British Pounds Sterling's i.e. (£1,000,000) in cash credited to file TICKET NO.EL754/22/76 and REF NO.EL/04/736207147/UK. This is from total prize money of £5,000,000 shared among the five international winners in this category. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through international electronic draw system and extracted from over 125,600 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion to takes place yearly. In view of this, your One Million Great British Pounds Sterling's (£1,000,000) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in England. Our claims officer will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him or her. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.To file for your claims, please contact our claims officer:MR. JAMES BROWN
CLAIMS OFFICER
THE E-LOTTERY COMPANYUNITED KINGDOM OFFICEHOUSE 2468 SIR MORGAN WRIGHT AVENUELONDON. E7 9LWUNITED KINGDOM.Email: eu_claimsoffices@yahoo.co.uk
Tell: +447045744707
For processing and remittance of your cash to a designated account of your choice. Remember, all winnings must be claim not later than 14 working days, After this date, All unclaimed funds will be returned to the E-LOTTER, you should contact your claims officer about the claimant procedures, send your fax and telephone to your claims officer, this will enable his office to send the claims application form (A4) to you the Beneficiary. Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform your claims officer.CONGRATULATIONS!!!Sincerely,MRS. AMANDA COLLINS
PROMOTION MANAGERTHE E-LOTTERY COMPANYUNITED KINGDOM OFFICEHOUSE 2468 SIR MORGAN WRIGHT AVENUELONDON. E7 9LWUNITED KINGDOM.
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